Pop Culture New York’s ‘Hot Dog King’ Has Held Court Outside the Met Museum for Years. Now Fans Are Rallying to Stop the City From Ejecting Him A new petition calls on New York officials to “enforce their health codes fairly across the board.” By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 14, 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 10, 2023
Pop Culture Amid Last Year’s Controversies, Johnny Depp Sold $3.5 Million in Art Prints. Now He Has a New Series of Portraits… and They Are Quite Bad His newest collection includes portraits of Heath Ledger, Bob Marley, River Phoenix, and Hunter S. Thompson. By Artnet News, Mar 8, 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
Pop Culture How ‘Inside,’ a Tense Tale of Survival Set in a Luxury Penthouse, Transforms Blue-Chip Art Into Willem Dafoe’s Unlikely Arch-Nemesis The anxiety-ridden film, which had its world premiere at the Berlinale film festival, even had its own curator. By Kate Brown, Mar 6, 2023
Pop Culture Artist Cj Hendry’s Wildly Popular Art Scavenger Hunt Is the Subject of a New Documentary That Captures the Thrill of the Chase Step inside Cj Hendry's 'Copyright Infringement' global scavenger hunt. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 3, 2023
Pop Culture Hit Mockumentary ‘Cunk on Earth’ Offers an Absurdly Comic Take on World History. Here Are 5 Things It Gets Right About Art The hit Netflix show is often surprisingly insightful. By Richard Whiddington, Mar 2, 2023
Pop Culture The Dutch Are Going Wild for a Reality TV Show Where Artists Compete to Paint Vermeer’s Lost Masterpieces The show coincides with the Rijksmuseum's blockbuster Vermeer exhibition. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 27, 2023
Pop Culture The Victoria & Albert Museum Says ‘Let’s Dance’ to David Bowie, Agreeing to Acquire the Iconic Musician’s Complete Archives Some 80,000 items from the musician's career will be available at the new David Bowie Center for the Study of Performing Arts. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 23, 2023
Pop Culture See Photographs That Capture the Thrill of Skateboarding in New York City, Shot by Spike Jonze, Atiba Jefferson, and Others The images are compiled in the 10th-anniversary edition of ‘Full Bleed: New York City Skateboard Photography.' By Min Chen, Feb 23, 2023
Pop Culture Here’s What We Know About ‘Moss and Freud,’ the Upcoming Film About the Friendship Between Kate Moss and Lucian Freud Ellie Bamber will play Moss, while Derek Jacobi has been cast as Freud. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 17, 2023
Pop Culture Hip-Hop Chronicler Sacha Jenkins on Curating a New Show to Celebrate the Movement’s Visual Language on Its 50th Anniversary Jenkins co-curated Fotografiska's "Hip-Hop: Conscious, Unconscious" exhibition, on view through May 21. By Min Chen, Feb 16, 2023
Pop Culture Brooklyn-Based Art Collective MSCHF Is at It Again, This Time With Cartoonishly Oversized Red Boots On February 16, MSCHF is dropping its latest provocation. It's already stomped all over social media. By Richard Whiddington, Feb 14, 2023
Pop Culture Owen Wilson Plays a Soothing TV Art Instructor in His Upcoming Film ‘Paint.’ But, No, He’s Not Bob Ross. (Well… Maybe a Little) The fictional painter is named Carl Nargle. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 10, 2023