Art
Polaroids Steeped in the Fog of Memory
CURITIBA, Brazil — Despite Polaroid having officially discontinued its product in 2008, it has resisted extinction.
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Art
At Home with Vilhelm Hammershøi
The room is quiet. We stand on the fringes, in the shadows, divided from the softly luminous space that’s momentarily brought into the light.
Books
Digressive Essays Imagine the Inner Worlds of Paintings
When I was a child, I made obsessive drawings of schoolgirls and created elaborate personal histories for each of my characters. Imbuing my silent drawings with stories was a form of entertainment, and is, for me at least, one of the most enjoyable aspects of writing about visual art.
Art
At Performa, Two Poets Make Online Language Flexible and Freeing
Poetry readings aren't popular, or easy.
Art
"Familiar, Unbidden": Finding Home with Elizabeth Bishop
Having grown up in seven different cities, there is no place I have ever felt particularly at home.
Art
Remembering Architecture Through Fragments and Impressions
Buildings, in New York City especially, are so overwhelmingly big that they can sometimes seem to occupy our space and not the other way around.
Art
Connecting the Lines Between Gego and Sarah Sze
Gego and Sarah Sze both studied architecture and chose visual art.
Art
A Documentary Takes a Walk Through Hélio Oiticica's Past
“My life has transformed itself into a montage of simultaneous things,” Hélio Oiticica wrote in a letter in 1971.
Art
Contemporary Brazilian Artists at Home with Neo-Concretists
“The house was more than a skin ... an organism as alive as our own,” Lygia Clark wrote.
Opinion
John Cage's 1960 Game Show Performance
"He is probably the most controversial figure in the musical world today and when you hear his performance, if you will forgive me, you'll understand why."
Opinion
Saluting Robin Williams as the American Flag
In the 1982 television special "I Love Liberty," Robin Williams channels the voice of the American flag.
Art
Politicized Artworks That Ask Viewers to Fill In the Unknowns
Two years ago, at a Cildo Meireles retrospective in Madrid, I sat on a wooden dock that overlooked a paper sea and a vast, blue plaster sky.