Interview
Artists Pick Artists: Stewart Home
In the 17th and final conversation of a series on interviews with artists, Stewart Home discusses making art about art and practicing headstands to attain altered states of consciousness.
Rob Colvin
Art
A Playful Take on the Still Life
Eliminating portraiture from her paintings and compressing the pictorial plane have allowed Holly Coulis to be more idiosyncratic, playful, convincing, and even funny.
Art
Jusepe de Ribera’s Catholic Perversity
An exhibition of drawings by the Counter-Reformation artist showcases his terrific bent towards horror.
Interview
Artists Pick Artists: Mario Mentrup
In his works, which are all performative to varying degrees, Mentrup tests our psychological limits.
Art
Everybody Likes "Like Art"
"Like Art," a type of bright, attention-grabbing work that aims for easy acceptance by servicing screen-tap culture, is everywhere.
Art
Life and Death in Portia Munson's Garden
The centerpiece of her new exhibition at PPOW is "The Garden" (1996–98), a kaleidoscopic, room-filling installation housing hundreds if not thousands of artificial flowers under a canopy of sewn together flower print dresses.
Art
The Suggestive Compositions of a Mediocre Caravaggist
The Metropolitan Museum's Valentin de Boulogne show clarifies why this French follower of Caravaggio remains lesser-known, despite the leering details in many of his paintings.
Art
Painting According to Art Basel Miami Beach
At Art Basel Miami Beach, if you only look at the art, it’s an affair worth the trip, because if you want to see the newest art made in Saint Petersburg, Vienna, Barcelona, or Berlin, it’s here.
Art
The Vitality of Everyday Things in Fairfield Porter’s Paintings
Porter's paint handling was gestural but exacting, never fancy, and always attending to the experience of looking.
Books
Parsing a Would-Be Canon of Recent Artists' Writings
The new book Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015 over-relies on art institutions to vet a very uneven selection of writings by 75 artists.
Art
How Cold War Politics Sabotaged Norman Rockwell’s Art
An exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum tracking the drop and resurgence in popularity of narrative art raises much bigger questions than it set out to address.
Interview
Artists Pick Artists: Kerstin Cmelka
Kerstin Cmelka is a filmmaker, video and performance artist, photographer, and writer in Berlin. Her investment in different mediums — contemporary as this may appear — is rooted in etymological thought, tracing back the literal meanings of "art" and "artists."