Art
The Folly of Performance
Performance art doesn't have to be so heavy. It can be light, like diving head-first into the trash, in Tamar Ettun's case.
Daniel Larkin
A man once knocked Daniel Larkin off his bar stool and flung mean words. He got up, smiled, and laughed as the bouncer showed him out. He doesn't give anyone the power to rain on his parade. It's more important for Daniel to be happy than famous.
Art
Before Selfies, There Were Self-Timers
People were photographing themselves long before the advent of iPhones. A collection of proto-selfies from the mid to late 20th century come together at the Austrian Cultural Forum for the summer exhibition Self-Timer Stories, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein.
Art
Would You Ignore 101 Chalk Outlines of a Black Male Body?
Whitney V. Hunter staged a performance as protest at Union Square on Saturday, August 24. He laid down on the cobbled square and traced his silhouette 101 times in chalk.
Performance
A Dance of Digital Shadows
Technologies that didn't exist 10 years are opening up fresh possibilities for choreographers and their collaborators. Interactive designer Matt Romein's recent collaborative presentation with choreographer Sophie Sotsky harnessed new developments in motion-capture technology, video programming lang
Performance
Voguing Andy Warhol in Whiteface
In the early 1980s, Andy Warhol posed in drag for a series of Polaroid portraits. Wearing heavy white makeup in works like "Self-Portrait in Drag" (1981), he exudes a ghoulish glamour.
Art
Is the Planet Screwed? Artists at Bushwick Open Studios Ponder Nature's Future
It's no secret that climate change and pollution are wrecking the planet. Many artists at the Bushwick Open Studios were internalizing the doom and visualizing the gloom.
Art
Harlem 'Hot House' Reimagines Heaven and Hell
Artists have transformed a vacant townhouse in Spanish Harlem for New York's 2014 Frieze weekend. The temporary exhibition, Hot House, spans three different levels loosely corresponding to the three parts of Dante's Divine Comedy (1308–21): the basement is the Inferno, the middle section of the hous
Art
How Laurie Simmons Makes Dolls Lie
Laurie Simmons isn't the first photographer to snap pictures of dolls, but she has a way of getting them to look eerily emotive (and making them take selfies). She pulls off the uncanny by aestheticizing several layers of lies.
Art
Queering Cartography and Theology
Earlier this week at the Union Theological Seminary, I sensed that someone in power must have a wicked sense of humor.
Art
Brief Interventions with Hideous Men
Oscar Wilde was suspicious of men in suits. He once famously remarked that "with an evening coat and a white tie, even a stock broker can gain a reputation for being civilized."
Art
Hans Hofmann's Purple Modernism
In the realm of high-modern abstract painting, the color purple rarely gets the spotlight. So it's exciting to watch Hans Hofmann play with purple and give it center stage in a pair of works on view right now at Ameringer McEnery Yohe.
Performance
Does White Privilege Make You Sweat?
It's difficult to create art about white privilege. Though one can easily enough declare that white privilege is bad, distilling all its paradoxes into a poignant artistic image is challenging. And when an artist succeeds, it commands attention.