News
Though incremental improvements have been made in recent decades, women remain substantially underrepresented at museums in North America, according to a new report commissioned by the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD).
Interview
For those seeking an antidote to the Armory madness this weekend, Distant Images, Local Positions, curated by Wafaa Bilal at the Project Space of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, is an edifying alternative.
Art
In a small room on the top floor of the Old School building at the corner of Mott and Prince Streets, floor-to-ceiling shelves are lined with pictures of disembodied heads and torsos adhered to off-brand canned goods.
Art
A cynic might observe, correctly, that a large commercial fair is as good a place as any to be reminded that most art sucks.
Art
If, as the philosopher of art Nelson Goodman has argued, "Denotation is the core of representation and is independent of resemblance," then Ken Weathersby’s tight wooden grids on view in Parallel Art Space's Off the Wall are more than the mere "paintings" the artist calls them — they fully inhabit t
News
The estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat has filed a complaint in the US District Court in Manhattan over a Christie's online auction comprising contested and unauthenticated works, the New York Times reported.
News
The archives of Partisan Review, the totemic 20th-century journal of politics and the arts, have finally been fully digitized.
News
This sweatshirt, listed today in a Christie's online auction, was allegedly hand-painted by Jean-Michel Basquiat between 1979 and 1980.
Interview
Jehane Noujaim's The Square is a cinéma vérité-style documentary offering an electrifyingly intimate, character-driven perspective on Egypt's political uprising and ensuing turmoil.
Art
Among France's postwar female sculptors, Germaine Richier, and her haunting figuration, is today perhaps the most under-appreciated. This has now been partially corrected thanks to the efforts of Dominique Lévy and Galerie Perrotin, two galleries that have joined forces to present a wide-ranging exh
Opinion
Presidents have painted before, but that doesn't make this denunciation any less earned. Bush's diplomacy was bloody, criminal, and disastrous; his "personal diplomacy" is of the same murderous hand.
News
Last week, we noted the interview Jasper Johns gave the Financial Times regarding his Regrets, the octogenarian's latest body of work and title of his forthcoming show at the Museum of Modern Art.