Art
The Kalman Family's Language of Looking
"Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough," Gustave Flaubert wrote in a letter.
Elisa Wouk Almino
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John Waters Tells Young Artists to "Wreck What Came Before"
"Today may be the last day of your juvenile delinquency, but it should also be the first day of your new adult disobedience," John Waters recently told the 2015 graduating class of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in his commencement speech.
Art
The Elements of Artmaking, at Bushwick Open Studios
In his studio, an artist stenciled unicorns to disco music, while upstairs a poetry reading was taking place in the same room as a makeshift tattoo parlor.
Opinion
Bolshoi Ballerina Performs 'Dying Swan' at 61
I first saw a video of Maya Plisetskaya dancing when she died early last month.
Opinion
Lucian Freud, on His Last Day of Painting
This video allegedly records Lucian Freud’s last day of painting: July 3, 2011, roughly two weeks before he died at age 88.
Opinion
Louise Bourgeois Peels a Tangerine
After family dinners, Louise Bourgeois says of her childhood, everyone “was supposed to bring some kind of entertainment.” Dinner entertainment clearly came with a sense of obligation. It wasn’t, exactly, fun.
Art
Exploring the Contradictions in Latin American Modern Design
The notion of the moderno, or modern, in Latin America is more associated with a mindset than a particular style.
In Brief
Fox News Bizarrely Censors $179M Picasso Painting
Apparently the price paid for Picasso's "Women of Algiers" (1955) on Monday is not the most obscene thing about it.
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Henry Moore Foundation Asks Artist Not to Use Sculpture as “Political Statement”
Three years ago, Kansas City–based artist A. Bitterman proposed moving a vacant, dilapidated house, located in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods, to the lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum.
Art
The Living, Small-Scale Portraits of Alice Neel
Like her paintings, Alice Neel’s watercolors and drawings, now showing at David Zwirner, wobble and tilt out of proportion, only more so.
Art
As Brazilian Art Trends, the Country's Racism Comes to the Fore
As a Brazilian who has lived in the US for the past 10 years, I’ve found Americans’ growing enthusiasm for Brazilian culture and politics both welcome and bothersome.
Art
At Volta, Artists Have a Room of Their Own
Volta is unique among Armory Week art fairs in that each gallery booth exhibits a solo project by one artist. The fair is still sizable — 90 galleries in total — but it’s a nice change to devote your time to individual series of works.