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Maksim Katsnelson shows up at Museum of Modern Art with original painting
Maksim Katsnelson, busted for punching a Times Square cop last year while dressed as the Man of Steel, reemerged Saturday as a pacifist painter outside the Museum of Modern Art.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/25 10:37pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/25 10:37pmRetiring director leaves legacy of art, expansion at Nelson-Atkins
On June 1 Marc Wilson will retire as director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art after 28 years at the helm. Wilson was a transformative director who improved and expanded the museum on multiple fronts.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/25 10:36pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/25 10:36pm
New Iron Man 2 Promo Art
Here are some amazing promo art pieces for the highly anticipated Iron Man 2. See Black Widow, War Machine, Whiplash, and of course Iron Man. Check it Out
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/25 10:35pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/25 10:35pm
The Art of Google Doodles
At Google's Silicon Valley corporate headquarters, the artists painting on digital canvases are producing works of art that will be viewed by millions . . . but disappear in just 24 hours.
1 comment | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/25 10:34pm
1 comment | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/25 10:34pm
Here Are Your iPad Etching Contest Winners
We got tons of entries, so it was hard to whittle them down. Although, so many people did dumb stuff like move the Apple logo (or cover it up completely) or used color that it made it easier to cut it down to a more reasonable number. Don't you people understand what etching is??
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/23 7:13pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/23 7:13pm
The anatomy of art
Dr. Ashraf Aziz, 71, a professor at the Howard University College of Medicine, has spent half his life cutting open cadavers and initiating medical students at the school into the pungent mysteries of human anatomy.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/21 9:00pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/21 9:00pm
Hundreds rally to protest arts funding cuts
The Capitol steps erupted with activity Monday when musicians, actors and puppeteers gathered to protest arts funding cuts and the elimination of the Georgia Council for the Arts.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/20 6:12am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/20 6:12am
Book jackets: An endangered art
Books still have covers, of course; even as the digital era gallops along, publishers continue to design and print jackets for their books, which then become the books' logos in their electronic versions. Yet if we do reach a time when the great majority of books are read on the screens of portable devices, something will be lost.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/19 8:59pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/19 8:59pm
“People actually buy this shit”: Art Docs Explore Lines Between Art and Hype
How do you distinguish the “true” art from the art that’s just hyped? Do the two have to be mutually exclusive? And are the high prices that art sells for indicative of its success, or its impurity? And who gets to call it art, anyway?
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/19 8:57pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/19 8:57pm
Video Games as Art? Who Cares.
Roger Ebert's back at it, saying games aren't art, but also that they can never be art. Never ever. Or at least, invoking the Rick Wakeman clause, never for any of you reading this. (After you're dead, who knows.)
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/19 8:55pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/19 8:55pm
'Through African Eyes' exhibit is now open at the DIA
A total of over 100 art pieces and objects made of wood, ivory, metals and textiles are included in this exhibit.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/18 7:00am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/18 7:00am
Roger Ebert revisits argument that games cannot be art
Roger Ebert, the famed American film critic, has returned to an argument he first ignited in 2005 when he answered a question from a fan about video games and their evolution into an art form, and he argued that it will never happen.
1 comment | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/18 2:16am
1 comment | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/18 2:16am
A Rich Satire About Street Art, Or Is It A Hoax?
OK, this is complicated. The new art-world documentary Exit through the Gift Shop is billed as being directed by Banksy, which is the pseudonym for an incognito British street artist who has been widely denounced but even more widely celebrated.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/18 2:15am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/18 2:15am
Nude Artists Groped in Museum of Modern Art
Despite the knowledge that touching art is not permitted, several patrons were guilty of touching the nude models in Marina Abramovic’s exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/18 2:12am
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/18 2:12am
NYC seeks limits on art vendors in popular parks
NEW YORK — Manhattan's most famous parks are lined with artists selling their sculptures, paintings and photographs — often of quintessential New York scenes — but city officials say the vendors have grown out of control and are trying to force many of them off the streets.
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/16 9:16pm
0 comments | Posted by: TimothyZhu on 04/16 9:16pm