MoMA Curators Ponder Polke Potato Problem

MoMA Curators Ponder Polke Potato Problem By Stephanie Strasnick MoMA's Polke retrospective is up through August, but the potatoes in his works won't last that long. Will they rot? Will they sprout? Stay tunedRead More When Good Paintings Happen to World Leaders By Rebecca Robertson Move over, George W. Bush: Jeffrey Vallance's portraits of despots and presidents are more fun to look atRead More What If Fra Angelico Painted Space Invaders? By Rebecca Robertson To imagine epic battles between heaven and earth, Dan Hernandez plants Super Mario Bros. clues in ancient frescoes and uses Donkey Kong architecture to build medieval fortresses Read More ALSO ONLINE How Artists Are Using Music to Seduce, Confound (and Entertain) Us By Elizabeth Fullerton From primordial incantations to operatic melodrama to hip-hop beats, artists are exploiting the elemental language of music to communicate across cultural boundariesRead More New Film Shows Hunter Thompson and Ralph Steadman on Wild and Crazy Ride By Ali Pechman The documentary 'No Good Reason' centers on the art and adventures of Ralph Steadman (and his gonzo journalist traveling buddy)Read More In Hew Locke's Blinged-Out Installations, Every Toy Jaguar Has Its Place By Elizabeth Fullerton With a dazzling palette of beaded tapestries, flying boats, and distinctive reliefs of Queen Elizabeth II, Hew Locke comments on the relationship between England and its former coloniesRead More Sponsored by: artnet Sol LeWitt, Christopher Wool, Jesús Rafael Soto, Victor Vasarely and more in Hard Edge sale, currently live on artnet Auctions click here Icons of Photojournalism featuring W. Eugene Smith, Robert Capa, Walker Evans, and more on artnet Auctions click here Latin America Art: Fernando Botero, Vik Muniz, and Sebastião Salgado, and others click here Flower: Full suite of 8 works by Donald Sultan live for bidding now on artnet Auctions click here CURATED CONTENT About that devil in MoMA's Gauguin show moma.org Art for math nerds wallpaper.com Banksy mysteries captivate London telegraph.co.uk Game of Thrones, the art-history version blog.artic.edu The Essentials: Eggcellent Nude Performance Art, the Fate of Photobooks, and More Art News artnet.com TRENDING ON ARTnews READ MORE ABOUT ARTnews Subscribe to our print or digital editions click here to subscribe via artnews.com In print since 1902, ARTnews is the most widely-read art magazine in the world. click here to learn more at artnews.com Interested in multi-platform advertising and marketing opportunities with ARTnews magazine, ARTnews.com, or ARTnews Headlines? click here to email adsales@artnews.com