Last weekend, we went to the Whitney Museum for the first time since it moved to its new, much nicer digs downtown. The opening exhibition “America is Hard To See” is a fantastic crash course on the history of American modern art. It’s exhaustive, a bit exhausting and a lot of fun. These works are…

Chalk this one up to the department of great ideas. The Sketchbook Project is an art project that encourages people from all over the world to create art in sketchbooks that then people can see online. It is a cool way to promote artists and keep them busy drawing.

Today is Edward Hopper’s birthday. And we want to celebrate because we love Edward Hopper. And we love Edward Hopper because his paintings are beautifully disquieting. They remind us of film stills; they are quintessentially modern. They speak of loneliness, life in the big city…

A lovely multimedia piece by the New York Times, with works by Wangechi Mutu, Joan Jonas, Ed…