On View In Pictures: See Inside a Gargantuan Graffiti and Street Art Exhibition in Hong Kong, Stacked With Works by Basquiat, Kaws, Futura, Lady Pink, and More "City as Studio" is on view at K11 Musea through May 14. By Min Chen, Mar 20, 2023
Pop Culture Blacklips Was a Performance Troupe That Thrived in a ‘Dank Corner’ of New York’s Late-Night Culture. A New Art Book Is Bringing It Back Into the Spotlight 'Blacklips: Her Life and Her Many, Many Deaths' documents the group's footprint through photographs, video stills, and other ephemera. By Min Chen, Mar 16, 2023
Art & Exhibitions ‘My Practice Is Play’: Trenton Doyle Hancock Has Gamed Out a Fully Functioning Basketball Court in a Houston Museum 'CAMH Court' will be on view through April 27 at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. By Min Chen, Mar 14, 2023
Art History Was Roy Lichtenstein an Appropriation Artist or Plagiarist? A New Documentary Probes the Ethics of His Multimillion-Dollar Comic Art Empire The film features comic artists whose work has been source material for the Pop artist. By Min Chen, Mar 13, 2023
Pop Culture ‘The Exhibit’ Recap: Our Next Great Artists-to-Be Take a Swing at Making Social Media Interesting This week, the reality TV contestants tackled the subject of platforms and digital strategy. By Min Chen, Mar 13, 2023
Pop Culture Coca-Cola’s New Ad Puts Canonical Paintings by Warhol, Vermeer, Van Gogh, and Other Artists to Work… Selling Soda Andy Warhol’s silkscreen Coke bottle comes to life. By Min Chen, Mar 9, 2023
NFTs LACMA Is Inviting Digital Artists to Put Tech-Powered Spins on Works in Its Collection as Part of a New Blockchain Initiative The works will be released for sale in limited digital editions. By Min Chen, Mar 9, 2023
Art & Exhibitions Artist Josie Williams Trained A.I. Chatbots on the Literary Achievements of Black Authors. The Result? ‘Virtual Poetry’ 'Ancestral Archives' will appear at SWSW from March 10. By Min Chen, Mar 8, 2023
Museums & Institutions The Pope Has Put a Horse, a Bearded Man, and a Boy—All Marble Fragments Looted From the Parthenon—on a Trip Back to Greece The Vatican is calling the restitution a "donation." By Min Chen, Mar 7, 2023
NFTs Digital Artist Siebren Versteeg Is Debuting a Collection of Time-Based Generative NFTs That Critiques… NFTs The series is dropping on Arsnl Art on March 13. By Min Chen, Mar 7, 2023
Museums & Institutions A Pair of Climate Activists in Scotland Smashed and Spray-Painted a Glass Case Housing ‘Braveheart’ Knight William Wallace’s Sword The campaigners wrote 'This Is Rigged' on the broken glass. By Min Chen, Mar 6, 2023
People Digital Artists Remember the ‘Invincible, Expanded Vision’ of Peter Weibel, the Curator Who Championed High-Tech Art Before It Was Cool The artist, curator, and director of ZKM died last week at age 78. By Min Chen, Mar 6, 2023
Pop Culture ‘The Exhibit’ Recap: The Reality TV Battle Royale to Find the Next Great Artist Launches With a Clash of Egos and a ‘Botticelli Banana’ In the first episode, contestants created work around the theme of gender. By Min Chen, Mar 6, 2023
NFTs Sarah Meyohas’s Pioneering Bitchcoin NFT Is Entering the Centre Pompidou’s Collection in a Landmark Acquisition of Digital Works It will join 17 other NFTs in the French national collection. By Min Chen, Mar 3, 2023
On View Artist Paul Kremer Co-Created His Latest Series of Abstract Floral Paintings With an Unlikely Collaborator: ChatGPT The works will be on view at Library Street Collective through April 26. By Min Chen, Mar 2, 2023