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Last night I spent only about 90 minutes on the 7th floor, and was thus unable to get to all of the rooms – I will be back to expand
The first model of the U.S.S. Enterprise, the starship that appeared in the opening credits of the original “Star Trek” television series, has been returned to Eugene Roddenberry Jr., the
The Rubin Museum’s last exhibition at its permanent space on West 17th Street brings in 32 contemporary artists’ works, each of which somehow relates to or is inspired by a
Swifties are swarming The Grove in Los Angeles in a days-long hunt for clues about Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album The Tortured Poets Department (2024). In advance of the album’s
Artist Faith Ringgold, whose seven-decade career encompassed bestselling children’s books, incisive activism, and work in an astonishing array of mediums, and culminated with the kind of mass international acclaim that
In 1952, when the late Gabe Pressman (dean of New York City’s local TV press corps) was a young staff writer at the New York World-Telegram & The Sun, he
Yesterday was my fourth opportunity to spend some hours looking at the work at ARTOMATIC. As I’ve noted many times over the last two decades, it is impossible to “see”
Mister Cee, a disc jockey who was an integral figure in New York City’s booming 1990s hip-hop scene and was an early champion of the Notorious B.I.G., has died. He
A US federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order to block the Des Moines Art Center’s (DMAC) demolition of Greenwood Pond: Double Site (1996), a Land art environment by
Archibald J. Motley, “The Liar” (1936) (all photos Zoë Hopkins/Hyperallergic) In the galleries of The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I stood just feet
The Italian architect and designer Gaetano Pesce, who was known for his often surreal designs that straddled the worlds of art, design, and industry, has died at age 84. His
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — John Barth, the playfully erudite author whose darkly comic and complicated novels revolved around the art of literature and launched countless debates over the art of
My personal best AOM find of all time was when I ran into Tim Tate at the second ever Artomatic in Tenleytown. The Tatenator was under the stairs on the
For those like myself who still haven’t cut the cord, here is a selection of cable and network TV shows, movies and specials that broadcast this week, April 1-7. Details
Dahomey, a new documentary by the French Senegalese director Mati Diop that won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival last month, begins with an event outside of
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Interim CEO Sara Fenske Bahat has resigned as the institution’s galleries remain closed since February 15, following a pro-Palestine action led by eight
New York’s annual and most important photography art fair opens this week. More than 80 photography galleries and dealers from world will be showing contemporary and vintage photographs at The
Jakub Skokan and Martin Tuma’s Zoolandscape “records forms of artificially constructed biotopes and landscape scenes of the environment of European zoological gardens. Zoological landscapes have a specific role. Their purpose
The Frankenthaler Foundation and its directors have filed motions to dismiss the ongoing legal saga with former board president, Frederick Iseman, according to court documents filed Tuesday. The two motions
When MuchMusic first aired in 1984, it was dubbed “Canada’s answer to MTV.” The channel launched the careers of musicians Barenaked Ladies and Bryan Adams as well as media personalities
One man was wounded in a stabbing outside the British Museum in central London on Tuesday, the Metropolitan Police said, adding that it was an isolated incident and that a
