If you thought contemporary art was hard to understand, try using Gagosian Gallery’s new iPad app.

How does he get away with it?

Gordon Willis’s abstract naturalism in Woody Allen’s beautiful 1979 film.

Action drawings from an event where everyone sat around all day.

A look at the “Masters” of the art form.

A report from the nerdiest convention in this universe.

MoMA’s Paola Antonelli lectures for AIGA New York.

Debuting today: a modest little effort to bring illustration to the Web.

On the lookout for interaction design examples that deserve to a spot in a museum.

What the creator of “Deadwood” has to say about writing, and how it matters to design.

US$21 million dollars on an art project makes some people angry, and that makes me angry.

Locally painted canvases at the Howl! Festival of East Village Arts.

The reissued “This Is New York” from M. Sasek.

Thoughts on the James Rosenquist retrospective at the Guggenheim.

Serializer.net is a vibrant experiment in online comics.

“The Atomic Revolution” is a beautifully illustrated comic book relic from the atomic age.

Mimi Young in “Commodification of Buddhism” at the Bronx Museum of Art.

The posters of Saigon, where human labor is cheaper than technology.

This is the story of a boy and his chat bot.

Elvis Costello in graffiti form.

This is a post about This Is a Magazine.

Mad scientist Chris Fahey is tooling around in the lab for Rhizome.

Bollywood has a rich legacy of film posters.

Scans of every page of the first issue of Action Comics.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about comics.

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is holding art festival.

Bert Monroy makes art with computers that doesn’t look like art made with computers.

“Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting” at MOMA.

Went to see “Topdog/Underdog.”

“The Russian Avant-Garde Book” at MOMA.

“Star Wars” in museums.

Harald Belker’s illustration work.

David Levine’s collection of travel-related ephemera of the 1920s and 30s.

The MOMA’s Film Stills Archive is going away.

Old conceptual drawings from the golden age of Atari.

It’s all a huge conspiracy.

How to make money in the world of online comics.

For the 23rd year, occupants along the Museum Mile open their doors for free.

The “Workspheres” and “Andreas Gursky” shows at the Musem of Modern Art.

Roger Guenveur Smith’s one-man play “A Huey P. Newton Story.”

The new Guggenheim Museum in Lower Manhattan is going to be great.