Art
Best known for arranging blocks of thrumming color into large rectangular canvases, Whitney’s major achievement has been to spark a slow burn of surprises, within the least esoteric medium around, large-scale oil painting.
Books
“I’m interested in how ideas function in the world, in questions of practice, not just theory,” Nesbit told me. “I’m not interested in theory per se, but rather in thinking.”
Art
Their only solution was to make their revolution their own way, without help and without precedent.
Art
The Botticelli exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, so filled with the hopes and ambitions of the Renaissance, seems especially timely in our deplorable political moment.
Art
404 pages are the dead ends of the internet, but some museums are using them for a bit of playful audience engagement.
Art
The artist and filmmaker's two-channel video piece "Ashes," having its US debut at the ICA in Boston, forces the viewer to reconcile disparate scenes projected onto either side of a suspended screen.
News
As the Department of Cultural Affairs works on the official NYC cultural plan, a group of activists has advanced its own ambitious vision.
News
Robin Bell lit up the DOJ and FBI façades with phrases such as "#RefusaltoRecuse" and comically sinister portraits of members of the Trump administration.
Performance
Indecent, by Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman, presents Sholem Asch's God of Vengeance as a triumphant, defiant showcase of queer love far ahead of its time.
Art
Cameron Jamie's three short films currently on view at Gladstone Gallery blur the boundary between documentation of ritualized performances and something more sinister.
News
The Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezaw who bought the 1982 painting last night at Sotheby's New York posted multiple images of himself posing with his treasure on Twitter and Instagram.
In Brief
The pop superstar’s half-baked viral stunt turned out flatter than a botched soufflé.