Art
Garner has been an absurdist for four decades, satirizing consumerism, marketing, and waste in performance art, videos, sculpture, installations, drawings and magazine editorials and art pages.
Books
David Carrier’s The Contemporary Art Gallery is a small but well-stocked treasury of first-hand observations by someone who’s spent a lot of time in art galleries, but who has retained enough critical distance to see them with a certain objectivity.
News
A giant cache of historical photography is now part of a searchable online database.
Art
Why things persist might be a question most relegated to the realm of philosophy, but I think it’s germane to Kishio Suga’s installations at Dia in Chelsea.
Art
Alex Nguyen-Vo's paintings imagine a resort where nude Westerners frolic care-free, oblivious to the power dynamics of their tropical paradise.
Art
Behind each innovation of the period was a negotiation between a company's needs and a designer's creativity.
Art
Ray Johnson's exhibition at Matthew Marks is proof that the eccentric collage and mail artist's works were never meant for gallery walls.
Art
"I want to capture my memories, and the only way for me to capture my memories is to make them in three dimensions," says artist Frank Wong in the short film Forever, Chinatown.
In Brief
Every month, publisher Primary Information will release a new set of artist-made postcards intended to be sent to buyers' representatives.
Art
In her solo show at Acme, Heather Rasmussen turns her own body into an allegory of desire.
Art
In My Country Tis of Thy People, You’re Dying, artists grapple with forcible resource extraction on indigenous lands.
Art
Kunstenfestivaldesarts, a launchpad for contemporary choreographers, seems to be making an effort to stretch its boundaries.