Artocracy

 Artocracy happened to be out and about in New Jersey today, and stumbled upon "Big Rusty" - one of Thomas Dambo 's amazing in...

  Artocracy finally had a chance to visit Naoshima Island in Japan, which I've wanted to do for a long time. Words cannot really captur...

The Prompt: Take the role of an art historian. Consider art broadly, including performance art, spoken word, music, film, graphic art, scul...

I've never found the sense of being terribly precious about a distinction between art and craft.  When it comes to some of these traditi...

  Interesting reviews of Michael Finkel's  The Art Thief and Laura Cumming's  Thunderclap in the always-excellent Financial Times ...