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December 20, 2010, 2:20 PM National Portrait Gallery Rejects Artist’s Request to Remove His Work By KATE TAYLOR James Estrin/The New York Times AA Bronson The National Portrait Gallery in Washington will not comply with an artist’s request that it remove a work of his from the exhibition “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,”…
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At first, Ebert seemed willing to discuss his opinion. When a reader from Denver asked, “Are you implying that books and film are better mediums, or just better uses of your time?” Ebert responded, “I believe books and films are better mediums, and better uses of my time. But how can I say that when…
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At first, Ebert seemed willing to discuss his opinion. When a reader from Denver asked, “Are you implying that books and film are better mediums, or just better uses of your time?” Ebert responded, “I believe books and films are better mediums, and better uses of my time. But how can I say that when…
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Nintendo is concerned about how people value video games, a concern that sounds like code for being quite anxious that more and more people are enjoying really cheap games, some of which might be as fun as a Mario. “I feel our business is dividing in a way that will threaten the continued employment of…
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Guns – Negativland (via sadvipran) Thanks to Mark Dery. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Guns – Negativland (via sadvipran) Thanks to Mark Dery. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Little Big Cremaster 1 (via fluxlasers) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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But the artist Jeff Koons, who constructed a 10-foot tall “Balloon Dog” that has been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and elsewhere, sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Canadian manufacturer and San Francisco gallery for producing and selling “Balloon Dog” bookends. Now the gallery, Park Life, has asked a federal court for a…
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In art, at the center, is the concept of beauty. The notion of “beauty” is loose. It is contested. It is even frequently denied its central role in many contemporary notions of the form. But what no one who wants to talk about art can do is ignore beauty. You can go around it or…
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For boys–even boys like this author, whose liberal-ish parents fulminated against the soul-scarring effects of “violent toys”–growing up in that America meant dreaming of guns. Cap guns, whose sweetly acrid smell is a grace note in memories of my boyhood summers. The impressively realistic toy Peacemaker in the Sears Roebuck catalog, with the tie that…