Opinion
What significance does Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi have to people in the state of Michigan? Why do the netizens of Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, and Wisconsin love Faith Ringgold?
Art
We don’t often see these people listed on press releases or wall placards, but it’s thanks to their work that we get to have meaningful aesthetic experiences.
News
Contrary to what evangelists of the "Bilbao effect" and sports stadium advocates would have you believe, a recent report from a UK government policy initiative cautions that major sports and culture project do not have a strong economic impact on their communities.
In Brief
If you've ever wanted to sit at a table and read dates out loud for an hour — or rather, if you've ever wanted to be part of an On Kawara artwork — you're about to get your chance.
Art
MIAMI BEACH — Sometimes at a fair all the art blends together and it's hard to know what to make of anything. Other times a motif emerges, and once you spot it, you wander the aisles and booths seeing it everywhere.
Art
MIAMI BEACH — Just a 15-minute walk down the road from this year's Art Basel Miami Beach is an exhilarating exhibition of work by 33 female artists. Acting as a foil to the painting and sculpture that dominate the fair(s), the show features only videos and performances, many of which focus on the bo
News
MIAMI — This evening, amid the well-kept art fairs and glitzy parties of Miami Art Week, some 300 people — possibly as many as 600, according to some reports — descended on the Miami neighborhood of Wynwood to protest police brutality and the death of artist Israel "Reefa" Hernandez.
Interview
Earlier this year, as part of the Whitney Biennial, I had my Tarot cards read by Flawless Sabrina.
In Brief
In an uncomfortable echo of the reeducation campaigns of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, Chinese President Xi Jinping has announced that artists, filmmakers, and TV staff will be sent to live and work in rural villages so that they will "form a correct view of art and create more masterpieces,” Ch
Art
MIAMI BEACH — One of the things I find hardest about art fairs — particularly those held in convention centers and large exhibition halls — is their aesthetic. Bright, clinical white everywhere, with temporary walls set at perfect right angles and the gridwork of pipes and rafters floating high abov
Opinion
MIAMI BEACH — Unsurprisingly, the best expression of the cognitive dissonance I'm once again feeling — living simultaneously in the real world and the art world, which feel so frustratingly far apart — comes in the form of a tweet.
In Brief
Just as the mouse may be as an "unexpected" artistic muse, so a Hollywood kids movie about a talking mouse is an unexpected place to find a missing painting from the Hungarian modernist avant-garde.