Art
From the Feminine to the Infinite: Marisa Merz at Met Breuer
Married to a key member of the Arte Povera movement in Italy, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz’s recognition as an artist in her own right is long overdue, at least in the United States.
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Interview
Not Settled: An Interview with Adam Zagajewski
Zagajewski consistently writes with lightness, wit, and a dry sense of irony that never shades into cynicism or self-satisfaction.
Interview
Going Crazy in New York and San Francisco: An Interview with Poet Julien Poirier
Reading these and the other poems that make up Out of Print what struck me was less the ostensive morbidity of Poirier’s images than the searing honesty underlying them.
Art
Franklin Furnace at 40: Still Radical After All These Years
For Martha Wilson and her collaborators at the Franklin Furnace Archive in New York, the avant-garde spirit is alive and well, and as relevant as ever.
Books
Drenching Found Negatives in Washes of Vivid Color
After discovering a series of negatives in an abandoned skyscraper in St. Louis, Aaron Farley altered the degraded images with caustic colors.
Art
Art F City Goes Goth for Its Benefit Bash
On April 18, the blog–cum–nonprofit will host a goth opera benefit starring performance artist Joseph Keckler.
Art
Collaged Paintings with Presence
Dona Nelson's works are literally made to stand up for themselves, bolted to wooden platforms and staged in coteries of pictorial bodies.
Art
Six Designs for Trump’s Border Wall, from Solar Panels to a Mexican-American Co-Nation
The Department of Homeland Security's call for proposals for a wall to be built along the Mexico–US border elicited hundreds of designs. Here are six of them.
Art
Treasures from the Met Ascend to Its Roof in a Scramble of Art History
Adrián Villar Rojas has transformed the open-air space into a dystopian banquet hall where culture is the main meal, long-ago consumed.
News
Protesters Honor Ana Mendieta at LA Opening of Carl Andre Retrospective
Artists and activists gathered at MOCA Geffen to protest what they consider Mendieta’s erasure from the canon and the disassociation of her death from Andre’s story.
Art
Surveying Landscapes for Clues to Political Violence
Two films made almost 50 years apart use silent shots of landscapes to examine the conditions that drove two young people to criminality.
Art
Why Marvel Fired an Artist for Inserting Religious and Political Messages into an X-Men Comic
Artist Ardian Syaf included religious references and an allusion to recent Indonesian political demonstrations in an X-Men comic.