Anonymous was a woman, and she is also a saint named Susan Unterberg, an anonymous philanthropist and artist who has revealed her identity to the New York Times after secretly donating $5.5 million to woman artists over the span of 22 years. Her grant program, Anonymous Was a Woman (named for a line from A Room of…
When I think of IKEA, I feel nothing. Yet the Swedish-founded, DIY-assembly furniture conglomerate is known for inspiring bad associations. It’s where couples break up. Where dreams go to die. Where they somehow screwed up meatballs. Where it suddenly dawns on you that minimalism is bullshit and you want to live, but…
While I am frustrated by the divisions in present-day American society, and the terrible erosion of democratic norms in Washington, I can’t let that affect my progress in my level 3 improv class. I believe that comedy transcends politics—especially my comedy, which is really improving, my teacher says.
Artist Emma Rose Laughlin is a lover of the traditionally feminine craft of embroidery. Ever since she discovered a box of discarded needlework in her grandma’s basement a few years ago, she has taken to stitching vintage doilies and handkerchiefs with painstaking designs—but she isn’t interested in the typical dainty…
Before joining Beyoncé on stage for a history-making Coachella set on Saturday, our hero Solange debuted a performance art piece at UCLA’s Hammer Museum in Los Angeles on Friday.
For most people in the rest of the United States, New Mexico is a sort of blank spot—an overlooked, ragged square wedged next to Texas, its loud, swaggering cousin. It’s the fifth biggest state land-mass-wise, at a little under 122,000 square miles, and one of the emptiest, with 2 million people spread out over the…
“An asterisk is such a small punctuation mark but it represents a huge terrible thing,” Emma Sulkowicz recently told Jezebel. Sulkowicz was referring to a February performance during which Sulkowicz stood in front of works by Chuck Close, recently accused of sexual harassment, their body covered with asterisks.
On Wednesday, Donald Trump signed the very necessary Eliminating Government-Funded Oil-Painting Bill, which will trim the nation’s debt by a fraction of a fraction of a percentage point. Thank god. Trump administration officials, who like to drop thousands of dollars of public money to ride private planes and purchase…
Photographer Nan Goldin, who captured downtown New York City in all its gritty, pre-gentrified glory during the late 1970s and ’80s, will have her iconic images of LGBTQ nightlife turned into streetwear for Supreme’s latest collection.
In reviews of its second season, Jessica Jones was declared the “superhero TV show” for the #MeToo movement. Blockers, a raunchy sex comedy about teenage girls losing their virginities on prom night, was christened the perfect comedy for the #MeToo era. Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri, despite being…
Blue Ivy Carter wears many hats. She is a child of Hollywood royalty. She is a fashion icon. She is a staunch defender of a woman’s right to personal space. She is an ender of feuds. And, as she proved on Saturday night, she is an art connoisseur, with eyes for only the finest pieces. She has accomplished all this…
Mattel announced last week that it is releasing a line of “Inspiring Women” Barbie dolls, including a doll in the likeness of Frida Kahlo. It didn’t go over well: In real life, Frida Kahlo had a huge unibrow, a prominent nose, wore long, traditional Tehuana dresses, and lived with various disabilities that often left…
Artist Nan Goldin was joined by nearly a 100 people this weekend at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Sackler Wing. There to protest the Sackler family many of whom have amassed a fortune through Purdue Pharma, the privately-held company that developed and marketed OxyContin, Goldin and her fellow protestors threw…
The incredibly famous 30,000-year-old Venus of Willendorf is one of the oldest pieces of art in existence and a cultural treasure almost beyond imagining. And you know what else? She is too hot for Facebook.
Rosie O’Donnell is selling anti-Trump phone cases on Etsy. These seem like they would be extremely therapeutic to make, if not to actually own.
During a Monday morning ceremony, Barack and Michelle Obama unveiled their official portraits at the National Portrait Gallery. The large-scale portrait of Barack Obama was painted by Kehinde Wiley, an artist best known for his updated, grand-scale history paintings that re-envision both the genre and its subjects; he…
Look at the precision of this work.
In October of last year thousands of artists, writers, and directors signed an open letter created by WANS (We Are Not Surprised) condemning Artforum publisher Knight Landesman after allegations of sexual misconduct. Landesman resigned that same month but now WANS are back with a new letter asking the former publisher…
Emma Sulkowicz, an artist best known for the 2014-2015 Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight), stood in front of a work by Chuck Close at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a separate Close mural at the 86 Street subway station. Sulkowicz, accompanied by photographer Sangsuk Sylvia Kang, wore only black underwear…
The Hollywood Reporter disclosed on Thursday that a mural painted by James Franco for the high school he attended has been effaced amid growing criticism over sexual misconduct allegations against the Disaster Artist auteur.
