10 of the Best Artworks About Suburbia
The development of the suburbs changed the social, political, and environmental landscape of America forever. The postwar exodus to a growing suburbia signified possibilities and prosperity, which is...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Memorable Artist Collaborations
For her contribution to the Manchester International Festival, Tracey Emin has announced plans for a collaboration with Louise Bourgeois, who she describes as her “hero” in a recent Guardian op-ed. To...
View ArticleFrom Collaboration to Theft: What Happens When Art and Advertising Collide
Last week, the Texas Department of Transportation ordered the removal of a new large-scale sculpture designed by contemporary artist Richard Phillips for Playboy Enterprises, on the grounds that...
View Article11 Hilarious Women in Pop Culture (Who Aren’t Comedians)
It’s a fact: women are funny. Comedians like Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Amy Schumer, and the Broad City babes are making the world better with every weird joke that they make. But there’s also a strain of...
View Article50 Uncanny Artworks
Pop surrealists and lowbrow artists owe a debt of gratitude to Margaret Keane — painter of melancholic, saucer-eyed little girls. Tim Burton’s Keane biopic Big Eyes, in theaters December 25, tells the...
View ArticleCindy Sherman Emojis, Apple Watches, and Ireland’s One-Day Legalization of...
Vanessa Bayer is once again flexing her formidable PR skills as Above Average‘s Janessa Slater, and this time she has some “Sound Advice” for Sleater-Kinney. Slater (not to be confused with Sleater)...
View Article13 Truly Terrifying Works of Art by Famous Artists
Art may be revered for its beauty, but there’s a lot of ugliness there too, even in the work of its most famous practitioners. Not to mention blood, guts and existential horror, of course. Come to...
View ArticleCindy Sherman’s Intimate Portraits as Hollywood Grande Dames Examine Aged...
From 1977 to 1980, photographer Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills series, 69 black-and-white images of the artist cast as actresses in stereotypical feminine roles from B movies and ‘50s/‘60s...
View ArticleFor the First Show in its New Home, the International Center of Photography...
The International Center of Photography closed its Midtown Manhattan exhibition space in 2015 with a massive Sebastião Salgado exhibition, a fitting celebration of two long and storied careers in fine...
View ArticleCindy Sherman Has an Instagram Account, Full of Hundreds of Cindy Shermans
Artnet News noted yesterday that not long ago, Cindy Sherman switched her Instagram account from private to public — therein unleashing a stampede of new, digitally distorted Cindy Shermans. Despite it...
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