News

David Choe’s Controversial Bowery Mural Tagged with Giant Letters [UPDATED]

The graffiti crew Big Time Mafia has scrawled its initials across Choe's controversial Lower East Side mural, completed less than a week ago.

Art

Breaking Down Nightlife Aesthetics at the Museum of Arts and Design

An event on June 15 will explore how nightclubs have historically been home to "nonconformist communities" through the lens of design.

In Brief

Bank of America and Delta Dump Public Theater Over Trump-Themed Julius Caesar [UPDATED]

Beware the ides of June.

Art

Cultural Diplomacy and Artwashing at Documenta in Athens

It remains a question whether Learning from Athens actually manages to learn anything from Greece and its financial crisis.

Art

An Introduction to the Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde of the 1960s and ’70s

An exhibition at Elizabeth Dee gallery offers a dense survey of a little-known topic, but without enough information.

Art

From a Jade Burial Suit to Terracotta Warriors, a Blockbuster Display of China's Ancient Treasures

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Age of Empires features over 160 archaeological finds, mostly from shrines and royal tombs from the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Art

Lucio Fontana's Psychedelic, Ceramic Crucifixes

The artist best known for his slashed canvases made a series of clay Christ figures between 1948 and 1961.

Art

Required Reading

This week, the earliest humans, an enjoyable Bernadette Corporation takedown, feminist craftivism, Afrosurrealism, Arizona's strange Confederate monuments, and more.

Art

Weekend Words: Stink

"Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards."

Books

How Not to Look at Pictures

Robert Walser was likely to find in images a reason to look into his own fervent imagination.

Art

Will Someone Please Give Ellen Berkenblit a Museum Show Already?

It is as if each of Berkenblit's distinctive works is an isolated, oversized panel from an unknown cartoon strip: we have no idea what happened before or what will happen next.

Art

Storms of Sea, Sky, and Paint

The driving force behind Peder Balke’s painting is his desire to harness paint’s capacious materiality, from impasto to liquidity, to evoke the changing, often tumultuous physicality of his subject matter.