Glenn Ligon, Untitled (2009). All images Nicolas Linnert for Art Observed. Ongoing at the Whitney Museum is Glenn Ligon’s mid-career retrospective, America. Showcasing his work including the well-known text-based paintings of the 1980’s through current day, the exhibition provides a broad perspective into the artist’s continually evolving career. Installation view at the Whitney Museum. more [...]

Curator Jeffrey Grove selected Fergus Feehily and Matt Connors for Concentrations 54 (both enjoy their first museum exhibition here at the DMA) because of the quiet little trail the two are blazing in the current story of painting. They are unlikely trailblazers because their work is so decidedly hushed, and often very small, especially in [...]

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"Friday Night Lights,'' which has been so entrenched in ideas surrounding absent fathers, is spending its final season in the territory of paternal healing.

One wonders: If Detroit had played like they did in the 1st period the first three games, surely this would look like a different series.

Jordi Savall cancels Disney Hall concert due to injury

Tomorrow, Saturday, May 7, 2011 is Free Comic Book Day here in the U.S. Once again a chance for comic book shops to open their doors to the curious and unaccustomed, hold special events, creator signings and sales; and for publishers to show off their wares in special titles and editions created for the occasion, [...]

“I placed less value on submissions that didn’t show much variance from what you’d get if you placed a photo on a photocopier, pressed the ‘copy’ button and then added a signature.” — David N. Kitler, animal/wildlife juror for The … Full Article

Today of all days (May 6), the day of the ruling for damages in the Cariou v Prince copyright case, NEWSgrist received the following email from a legal assistant at a firm in Oakland California called Bay Oak Law. It...

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“Flight,” a performance piece of scenes lifted from classic films, collaged and re-staged by Liz Magic Laser hits the great white way this weekend, or rather it lands on the red staircase in the heart of Times Square. The piece, originally performed at PS1 in 2010, has been refined to meet and respond to the [...]

At a rehearsal for "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" on Friday, the actor Christopher Tierney returned to the scene of an accident that nearly killed him during a performance on Dec. 20.

A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.

The struggling American Folk Art Museum is turning over ownership and management of the annual American Antiques Show to the Art Fair Company in an effort to help stabilize its finances.

The conductor’s back problems require him to cancel performances from mid-May through early October.

At a rehearsal for "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" on Friday, the actor Christopher Tierney returned to the scene of an accident that nearly killed him during a performance on Dec. 20.

The struggling American Folk Art Museum is turning over ownership and management of the annual American Antiques Show to the Art Fair Company in an effort to help stabilize its finances.

In starting Bookish.com, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group USA and Hachette Book Group hope to provide one-stop shopping for books and information about authors.

The Sloan Foundation has become a major backer of science-theme art, especially on the stage and in film.

Join us and help ensure that our CHEFS program remains strong and continues to provide education and support to homeless adults in San Francisco.

I started doing a fifteen minute sketch for myself on Fridays... here is this week's sketch...

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