“The broader art world has no problems with the work of Jeff Wall, or Cindy Sherman or James Casebere or Thomas Demand partly because the creative process in the work is clear and plain to see, and [ READ MORE ... ]

Jean-Philippe Delhomme has a little fun with one of photography’s most decisive moments in his sketch from this week’s The New Yorker.

Things like this set my mind spiraling out to alternate [ READ MORE ... ]

The Museum of Modern Art has acquired the “at symbol.” From their Inside/Out blog:

The acquisition of @ … relies on the assumption that physical possession of an object as a requirement for an [ READ MORE ... ]

Duane Michals’ The Bogeyman (1973), rendered as an animated .gif.

I count five separate frames in this .gif, while the original piece is seven individual prints. Very cool, nonetheless.

(found deep in the wilds of [ READ MORE ... ]

This very short film – produced by MoMA – should be required viewing for folks encountering abstract art for the first time. A simple and elegant explanation of how a 5 ft. tall tower of wood, cardboard, [ READ MORE ... ]

» Standalone headline from recent The Onion print edition.

Ted Leo and his merry band of Pharmacists have a new record on the, uh, “shelves”.

This one goes by the name of The Brutalist Bricks and features a catchy ditty with a photography theme: “One [ READ MORE ... ]

My wife and I watch The Daily Show via the Comedy Central website and, as such, have been inundated with commercials for the network’s new show Ugly Americans. No idea if [ READ MORE ... ]

Today marks the 20th anniversary of history’s greatest art heist. In 1990, men dressed as Boston police officers (and wearing fake moustaches) sauntered into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, handcuffed two on-duty security [ READ MORE ... ]

John Divola’s The Green of This Notebook is available at photo-eye bookstore.

The Green of this Notebook is an artist’s book based on Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness … Divola presents a [ READ MORE ... ]

Nina Katchadourian - Clifford Gallery - Colgate University

[ Imported from /// Visual Thought ]

Man taking a photograph of William Eggleston, who was signing books at the time. Art Institute of Chicago, February 27, 2010.

[ Imported from /// Visual Thought ]

Video Quartet, by Christian Marclay (via Vimeo)

I’ve only ever seen this once, several years ago at the Seattle Art Museum. The whole thing is 14 minutes. I must have watched it four or five times.

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This “Ansel Adams’ Theme Song” stands out as the most absurd, uh, “interpretation” of Adams’ “historic” legacy. More than legendary photographer, Adams attains super-heroic status. Sample lyrics:

“Who at the age of 10 built Cincinatti … [ READ MORE ... ]