Art and Culture

Hyperallergic - For the past five months, those crossing London’s Trafalgar Square received a massive thumbs up courtesy of David Shrigley, whose sculpture “Really Good” sat atop the Fourth Plinth. The towering...

EI - The 56-year-old former agricultural trader, now unemployed, was looking at the transformation of the ruins of his house in Khan Younis in the south of the occupied Gaza Strip. It is a third incarnation in ...

BBC  - The photographs he would go on to take coincided with Warhol's emergence as a prominent artist and would capture the vibrant creativity of the New York art scene in the late 1960s.The young photographer ...

BBC - How many came to mock these ‘degenerate’ artworks, and how many came to admire them? It’s impossible to tell (in Hitler’s Germany, dissenters ended up in concentration camps) but, either way, ‘degenerate’...

Art in America- ONE NIGHT IN Rome, in the summer of 1632, an expat French painter named Valentin de Boulogne stumbled home after a night of drinking. The evening was warm despite the hour, and Valentin decided ...

Hyperallergic- In the 1970s, action films coming out of Hong Kong’s Shaw Brothers Studios captured moviegoers’ imaginations in the United States. As the colorful, action-packed films — many sharing creative DNA...

Artnet News - Power in our rapidly expanding global art world comes in many forms. There’s creativity which pushes past formal boundaries, influence which can often convince cultural agents to do its bidding, a...

Art in America - I haven’t been to Thailand proper, though I’ve traveled there many times via the works of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the country’s best-known filmmaker. I first encountered Weerasethakul by acc...