Buildings, like people hold many secrets. In Self Portrait with Empty House, actor and playwright Edgar Oliver reveals the secrets of his own building, in this captivating one man show. Reviewed by: Ilana Novick Edgar Oliver’s one-man play, East Tenth Street: Self Portrait with Empty House is an unsentimental yet utterly captivating...

By now, many of you are quite familiar with Mel Chin’s nationwide Fundred project to help highlight the issue of lead contaminated soil in New Orleans. Students and professional artists all across the country are designing “Fundred” hundred dollar bills that will be collected in an artistic collaboration involving thousands...

I saw this online yesterday as it occured in my city. A project done by an LA based Iraqi Veterans Against the War set out 4171 toy US Soldiers at a gas station at late night (since the action, the number of US soldiers has climbed to 4,193). Not that...

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Orozco discusses recent photographs taken in Mexico and Ecuador in 2007, and the role photography plays in his broader artistic practice. Gabriel Orozco’s sculptures and photographs disrupt conventional notions of reality. Drawing our attention to slips in logic, philosophical games, and hidden geometries, Orozco uncovers the extraordinary aspects of...

President-elect Barack Obama is beginning to create his cabinet and assess roles within the upcoming administration.

A new body of work by Trenton Doyle Hancock (Season 2) will be on view at James Cohan Gallery New York, November 20 through January 10, 2009. Hancock’s fourth exhibition at the gallery, FEAR includes paintings, wall drawings, and a new portfolio of twenty mixed media prints that the artist recently completed at the Brodsky Center for...

Just two days after the judge declared the trial of three men suspected of involvement in Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder would be open to the public, reporters were ordered to clear the courtroom. The presiding judge declared that the 20 selected jurors had requested closed proceedings. The defendants' lawyers,...

Jeff Seelbach Juan Evo Morales Ayma, President of Bolivia, spoke in New York on Tuesday as part of the Columbia University World Leaders Forum. Morales, the first indigenous president in Bolivian history, was elected in 2005. In September of this year, he kicked out the U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, accusing him...

Jeff Seelbach Juan Evo Morales Ayma, President of Bolivia, spoke in New York on Tuesday as part of the Columbia University World Leaders Forum. Morales, the first indigenous president in Bolivian history, was elected in 2005. In September of this year, he kicked out the U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, accusing him...

Senators from Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri are working late tonight, trying to reach a compromise that would allow automakers to tap into $25 billion in government money that was set aside for retooling plants to make "cars of the future." Funny that no one calls that an earmark....

View and download the new NATURE Comic Book: "Lobo: King of the Currumpaw." Download as PDF [1.7 MB] [gallery] Adapted by MARK EVANIER Illustrated by THOMAS YEATES Lettered by TODD KLEIN

My calendar tends to get booked up far in advance and so I don’t usually focus on what I’m doing on a given day until a few days before. As a result, I hadn’t really focused on my plans for last night until well into the afternoon, long after I...

Neeraj and her mother Devki from Wide Angle's Back to School “What’s so great about being educated,” asks Devki, a mother from Rajasthan, India whose daughter Neeraj appears in Wide Angle’s film Time For School. “Even if you study, these educated people have nothing to do….We educated our sons and what...

James Donald, one of the producers of American Eagle, responds to some of your comments. Thank you for all of the comments so far -– I’m touched to see how the film has affected people so deeply. We’re happy that our story of the bald eagle was able to reach such a wide...

At a recent Journal meeting with my co-editors (Christina Ulke and Robby Herbst), we were identifying how the current climate would affect our work. While some of our idealisms would imagine nothing substantive changing with the recent election, we agreed optimistically to assume otherwise. (I mean Echo Park had...