late capitalism
What better artist to inaugurate Hauser & Wirth’s expansive new space than the sprawling and unwieldy Dieter Roth?
The Mona Lisa in a transparent dress and cat eye sunglasses.
The great American garage sale comes to MoMA.
A free, state-of-the-art recording studio and support for street artists from San Francisco to Manchester.
“Gangnam Style” stays catchy while hitting the right tone of self-parody, like the K-Pop version of Justin Timberlake’s SNL career.
Mo’ money mo’ problems.
French journalist Jean Abbiateci has sorted through the 270 most expensive artworks sold at auction since 2008, and the resulting interactive infographic on visualizing.org reveals a lot about the art market, not all of it pretty.
The artists have officially abandoned LA MOCA, Los Angeles’s only museum devoted to contemporary art.
Josephine Meckseper explains why she erected an oil rig in the middle of Times Square.
Foap wants to pay you for your iPhone pictures.
One man in particular has shaped how we represent the future. At once immensely familiar and perfectly unknown, painter and engineer Syd Mead is an unavoidable part of American culture.
On the New Yorker blog, Sasha Frere-Jones plots a trajectory from Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbau to Japanese noise musician Merzbow to Justin Bieber. The connection? Machines.
