Books
Confessions of a Met Museum Info Desk Worker
Robyn Schiff’s Information Desk: An Epic answers questions readers never knew they had.
Alina Cohen
Alina Cohen lives and writes in Los Angeles. You can follow her @alinacohen.
Art
The Other Art Fair Is a Collegial Affair
Cast-bronze “tortillas” and miniatures painted using a handmade cat-hair brush shine in the LA edition of the fair where artists manage their own booths.
Art
LA's Art Book Fair Is Back With a Bang
This year’s edition, the first in the city since 2019, suggests a publishing landscape as quirky and diffuse as Los Angeles itself.
Art
An Itinerant Museum Picks Apart the Language of Dehumanization
The Museum of Nonhumanity, on view at the Nordic Biennial, looks at the ways language shapes "othering."
Film
Glimpses of Laurie Simmons’s Life and Art in Her First Feature Film
Laurie Simmons’s new feature film, My Art, screening at the Tribeca Film Festival, includes many metafictional nods to the artist's real life.
Film
A Documentary Introduction to the Art World, with Star Power and Obvious Ideas
Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World, showing at the Tribeca Film Festival, is a successful crash course in the forces shaping the art market that fails to go deeper.
Art
A Year of Lynda Benglis Shows in a Norwegian City
The Norwegian city of Bergen, home to about 265,000 people, is getting a full dose of Lynda Benglis this year.
Art
An Uncanny World of Manipulated Animals and Machines
DALLAS, Tex. — In 2007, Italian artist Paola Pivi brazenly preempted her audience’s response to a work by titling it, “If you like it, thank you. If you don’t like it, I am sorry. Enjoy anyway.”
Art
Bringing a Sculptural Platoon of Female Soldiers to Life
DALLAS — In a downstairs gallery the Nasher Sculpture Center, Mai-Thu Perret has created an enclave for her newest sculptural figures — a band of female militants, plus one dog.
Film
A Documentary About the Artist Who Stole Banksy’s Work Out of Spite
The Banksy Job looks remarkably like the 2010 mockumentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, but its co-directors maintain that the whole thing is unscripted.
Film
A Documentary Tribute to Chris Burden's Extreme Oeuvre
Perhaps most surprising about the new film Burden, directed by Timothy Marrinan and Richard Dewey and screening at the Tribeca Film Festival, is its depiction of artist Chris Burden’s dramatic transformation from a rabble-rousing student in the 1970s to a mild-mannered landowner in 2014.
Performance
Restaging a 1979 Dance, Designed by Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg worked with dancers?