Art
Gowanus Artists Paint a Mangled and Messy Image of America
Artists are struggling with what it means to be a New Yorker in 2018.
Daniel Larkin
Books
American Art Critics, from Lucy Lippard to Darby English, Open Up in a Book of Interviews
In What It Means to Write About Art, famous critics put into print parts of their story they’ve never revealed to the public before.
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Hunting for Dragons in Antoni Gaudí’s Barcelona Masterpieces
The dragon pops up as a recurring motif in Gaudí's famous works, and this is no coincidence.
Test 2018 posts
Tribeca Art Spaces Yearn for Love in the Time of Cholera
We're not the first, or last, to live in dark times, but artists are continuously finding new ways to cope with these everyday realities through art.
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Refreshingly Rough Wooden Sculptures, Carved with a Traditional Japanese Hatchet
Hirosuke Yabe's wooden sculptures jive with the jagged, accentuate accidents, and roll with the rough.
Film
A New Documentary Reveals the Living, Breathing Joseph Beuys
For the first documentary ever made about Beuys, director Andres Veiel dug into the archives, creating a film that is 95% footage of the artist.
Art
A Gleaming Shrine for Oscar Wilde
David McDermott and Peter McGough have built a shrine to Wilde in the basement of a church in Greenwich Village.
Performance
What Roberto Bolaño Can Teach Us About Making Art Under Fascism
A new stage adaptation of Bolaño's 1993 novel Distant Star juxtaposes the lofty aspirations and dire realities of poets living through Chile's 1973 coup.
Art
Playing with Words in the Most Linguistically Diverse Place in the World
At Flux Factory in Queens, Tongue Tide treats other languages as treasure chests of unique expressions.
Art
Laughing at the Jokes on Ancient Greek Vases
An exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum showcases the vessels of the so-called Berlin Painter, highlighting the oft-overlooked comedy in Greek ceramics.
Art
Emily Dickinson Was Less Reclusive Than We Think
I’m Nobody! Who are you? The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson at the Morgan Library reveals the poet to be far more socially engaged than we've believed her to be.
Art
Dark Matter as a Metaphor for Arts Activism
Activists are like hidden forces operating in the dark, their effects unfolding behind the scenes.