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Twenty-five years after a landmark Supreme Court of Canada ruling, Gladue reports have a ways to go to be widely accessible, says law prof.

Patti Astor, cofounder of New York's Fun Gallery, has died at 74. The gallery showed Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and major graffiti artists.

This two-part column focuses less on a specific show or event, but reflects on this idea of the avant-garde to observe its dramatically shifting application to art movements and practices. Part one focused on the nineteenth and twentieth century references. This second part continues last month’s history of the term avant-garde, to consider its application to media art.

There are certain films that become outliers for their cult status, films that can be esoteric as well as universally appealing. If searching for an e...

The sex shops and porn theaters that pervaded the 42nd Street area in the 1970s and ’80s have long since yielded to the Disneyfication of Times Square. For Jane Dickson, however, images of these seedy places have continued to provide a potent source of visual stimulation as well as conceptual aspiration in an ongoing series that constitutes a penetrating critique of American values and social strata.

The artist spoke to Observer about her history, her motivations and more.

Domenick Ammirati on Armory Week in New York

Shelley Harlow died at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital (QEQM) in Margate, Kent after suffering a blood clot following a caesarean operation.

In many of Jane Dicksons paintings, the text falls off the canvas, as if you are viewing the works from a moving car. And in the midst of what appear...

AUGUST WAS SLOW and dull and frustrating; I spent it trying to synthesize Craig Owens and Leo Strauss. The confluence of postmodernism and antimodernism would seem to explain our reactionary aesthetic substrate as well as anything at the moment. The transformation of the art object into a financial instrument: What does it look like? It remains terminally hard to say, since what it looks like doesn’t matter. We just feel like we’re being lied to all the time.An art fair, of course, is not t...