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MODAtlanta Gleams the Cube with ‘Skate It or Hang It!?’

(Visual Art, Atlanta) This is a long, long way from Dogtown; some of these decks are worth five figures, apparently. Then again, who knows what one of Jay Adams’ seven-inch-wide, undecorated, fiberglass 1979-vintage decks would go for on the open market. ...more...

Met’s 3D Hackathon Brings New Perspectives, Mustaches to Classic Works

(Visual Art, National) Ten or more years ago, word was that, one day, we’d be able to download the image of an object from the Web, send it to a 3D printer, and hey! presto! print a copy of that object. ...more...

Clatter and Skronk at Chelsea’s Eyebeam Gallery

(Visual Art, Etc., New York) Man’s been involved in the process of making noise – intentional noise – ever since the first Neanderthal banged a rock against another rock, or against some other Neanderthal’s skull. ...more...

Strawberry Festival, Meet Street Art

(Visual Art, Billings) All Sean Thomas wanted to do was work at Costco and hang out with his wife. Then the voices started: “Oooooh… Sean Thomas… what will you get your wife… for your ANNIVERSARY…” ...more...

Oh, Lord, NOLA’s Contemporary Art Center is Falling Apart

(Visual Art, New Orleans) This has come up before, just a couple of months ago, in fact, when the CAC shut down its Spaces exhibit so that someone or other could make a movie , but things look terrifically unsettled now, which is just what a huge space dedicated to contemporary art needs. ...more...

Go See the Open Studios in Bushwick, Before It All Ends

(Visual Art, New York) New York’s probably got about two decades left in it, maybe a little more, before the whole place is just covered in new condos and 7-Elevens. Unless the zombie apocalypse comes. Hey, dare to dream. ...more...

Leo Villareal, Painting in Light, at Conner Contemporary

(Visual Art, Washington DC) Because the world is ephemeral – rushing onward to the uncertain future, every moment potentially the last – one day even the Mona Lisa will fade and fall into the Sun. So why not paint in light? ...more...

MCA Detroit Has Some Post-Industrial Wonder Up Right Now

(Visual Art, Detroit) What do you do when the industry around which you’ve built your entire city crumbles? Well, first you start rebuilding the industry. Then you bring in some new industries. ...more...

Go Buy Cheap Artwork This Weekend, Philly

(Visual Art, Philadelphia) There isn’t really too much more to say than that – it’s the InLiquid “Art for the Cash Poor” fair again, the thirteenth one (which means the first one was in 2000? Oh, god, where is time going) ...more...

Chihuly’s Glass Garden Is Open

(Visual Art, Seattle) This has been bubbling under for months, and now the long-awaited Dale Chihuly Garden and Glass, right at the very foot of the Space Needle, is up and open and ready for people to wander it with, hopefully, very steady footing ...more...

Tabitha Soren Is Now a Photographer With an Exhibit at iMOCA

(Visual Art, Indianapolis) Strawberry-scented grunge darling Tabitha Soren, who made the dreariest and most pointless updates about the new Collective Soul album seem like vital and pertinent information by virtue of the twinkle in her dewy, crystal eyes, hasn’t been seen much of lately, owing to the fact that she’s been creating what is likely a ridiculously cute and frighteningly well-spoken family with Michael Lewis. ...more...

The Toledo Museum of Art Wants Your Children

(Visual Art, Toledo) To look at the art! It wants them to look at the art! That’s all! Don’t flip out, this is actually really great. ...more...

Title Notwithstanding, ‘Off the Beaten Path’ Is Very Serious Indeed

(Visual Art, Denver) Ray Mark Rinaldi has a point: you see a traveling exhibition called Off the Beaten Path that’s subtitled “Violence, Women and Art”, you might be compelled to think: wait, it’s really called Off the Beaten Path? ...more...

This Spring at the New Museum: Women

(Visual Art, New York) Late spring, becoming early summer, to be more precise, as the last of the four exhibits closes on July 1. ...more...

New York Will Now Have a Cy Twombly Museum, Too

(Art Museums, New York) Cy Twombly ran with Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg back in the day but never really wound up with the brand recognition that those two did. ...more...

L.A. MoCA Brings the ‘Land Art’ to You

(Art Museums, Los Angeles) Land art is great, okay, land art, art made from the LAND, you know? The trouble is getting to it. Seeing it. ...more...

Buy a Deck, Give the Kids of Detroit a Skatepark

(Visual Art, Detroit) Lost, sometimes, in the endless macabre tales of woe-is-Detroit end-times apocalypse, is this: There’s still three-quarters of a million people living in Detroit, and more than four million in the D’s metro area. That’s not an empty city. ...more...

The New Dia:Chelsea Starts to Take Shape

(Visual Art, New York) The Dia Art Foundation still has a foothold downtown, at 535 W. 22nd St., but all we talk about when we talk about the Dia:Chelsea these days is: poetry readings. ...more...

After Three Decades, PMA’s Sol LeWitt Garden is Finally Here

(Visual Art, Philadelphia) So many things, over the years, conspired to put the kibosh on Sol LeWitt’s planned Lines in Four Directions in Flowers installation/garden at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, although if you wanted to choose just one, distraction would probably be the best candidate. ...more...

Go and Tour the David Ireland House While You Can

(Visual Art, San Francisco) david Ireland’s got pieces in modern art museums all over the country, but from 1975 until his death in 2009, his major work essentially consisted of one piece – his house. ...more...

You Are Allowed to Be a Little Creeped Out By Blue Sky Gallery’s New Shows

(Visual Art, Portland OR) There are many things about the modern world that are nearly miraculous, in their way. Take the iPhone, just as a random example: it’s pretty ridiculous that a little 3×4-inch black slab has more computing power than the best desktops of a decade ago. ...more...

Fifteen Masterworks from Bergamo’s Accademia Carrara At the Met

(Visual Art, New York) Fifteen paintings usually isn’t much to hang a show on – what’s that fill, two galleries, maybe? Probably not even that for someone like Magritte or Dali; those guys worked small, you know. ...more...

Site-Specific Salute to the Golden Gate Bridge Opens Friday at Fort Point

(Visual Art, San Francisco) This here installation at the Point, International Orange, will be large. Of course, it’s a salute to the Golden Gate Bridge on the occasion of its 75th anniversary, so maybe it won’t be large enough? ...more...

MFA Boston Gets Big, Big Gift

(Visual Art, Boston) The Lanes, Saundra and William, they’ve given to MFA Boston before, evidenced very clearly by the fact that three different galleries in the Art of the Americas Wing are named after them. ...more...

Taft Museum Gets Fifty Masterworks From the Wadsworth For the Summer

(Art Museums, Cincinnati) The Wadsworth Atheneum has been around for so long that when it opened, people were probably still using the word “atheneum” in conversation. ...more...