Art
Kinetic Sculpture that Moves at a Snail-like Pace
PARIS — I particularly admire Pol Bury’s (1922–2005) shimmering, kinetic work when it almost imperceptibly quivers.
Joseph Nechvatal
News
Photographer Kiripi Katembo, Master of Reflection, Dies at 36
The Congolese photographer, painter, and film producer Kiripi Katembo has died at age 36 of cerebral malaria.
Art
What the Lascaux Caves Facsimiles Fail to Capture
PARIS — For many, the Lascaux caves are the honey pot for what became artistic in the Western tradition.
Art
Dieter Roth’s Chaotic and Cacophonous Gesamtkunstwerk
BERLIN — The exhibition And away with the minutes spins like a rococo confection around the prolific noise music projects of the legendary and influential German-born Swiss artist Dieter Roth.
News
Beautiful Roman Frescoes Uncovered in the South of France
PARIS — In the Bouches-du Rhône in Arles, archaeologists have uncovered a sumptuous ancient treasure in what remains of a Roman villa dating from the 1st century BCE.
Art
Revisiting Le Corbusier as a Fascist
PARIS — Spoiler alert: The deplorable revelations recounted here will not ruin your appreciation of the sublime beauty of Le Corbusier’s masterpieces.
Art
Sex Is Both Rude and Sweet in an Italian Modernist’s Oeuvre
PARIS — The work of Carol Rama has a powerful belligerence about it.
Art
Sex Is Both Rude and Sweet in an Italian Modernist’s Oeuvre
PARIS — The work of Carol Rama has a powerful belligerence about it.
Art
Modernist Male Art Is Timeless, but Not Timely
PARIS — According to Sigmund Freud, a key that opens a room in a dream is unmistakably phallic.
Art
Marcel Broodthaers Killed Art with Currency
I suspect that those in the flow of the globalized 1% who advocate art for money’s sake are purposefully ignorant of Ursula Meyer’s key 1972 proposition.
Art
Sigmar Polke’s Dreamy, Trippy Art Went Deeper than Pop
COLOGNE, Germany — Sigmar Polke was based in Cologne for over 30 years before he died there in 2010 at age 69, and his Alibis: Retrospective brings his body of work home to rest.
Interview
Toward a Theory of Transcendental Black Metal
Hunter Hunt-Hendrix is the creator of Liturgy, the band from Brooklyn that plays “transcendental black metal music.”