Art
Weekend Words: Mask
"A mask of gold hides all deformities."
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Books
An Art of Dislocation and Reinvention Reflects the Epic of Black America
Quite simply, the history, not just of art in Los Angeles, but of modern American art generally will have to be reconceived on the basis of Now Dig This!, the exhibition curated by Kellie Jones, and her new book, South of Pico.
Books
Pitching Poetry: Charles Bernstein's Essays and Interviews
From the outset of his career Bernstein has fought for a poetry of leaps and fissures, one that inhabits the space between logic and irrationality.
Art
Everybody Should Want to Belong to Sedrick Huckaby’s Tribe
Huckaby, who lives in Fort Worth, Texas, where he was raised, and teaches at the University of Texas at Arlington, draws people he knows: family, friends, and neighbors in the African American community: he makes the local become something more.
Art
Dawn Clements’ Love of Things
Clements’ dedication to drawing — “the way she sees,” as she once told Susan Swenson — is registered in the shifts and jumps in perspective, and in her use of separate sheets of paper to define the limits of her focus.
Art
Spirits and Hungry Ghosts
It was time for Donald to go to the temple.
Art
Roger Bissière, The Last "Primitive"
With the death of the French painter Roger Bissière in 1964, a whole chapter of Modernism, one that we could call the “Primitive Paradigm,” came to a close.
Performance
The Embodied Life Writing of Aynsley Vandenbroucke
Aynsley Vandenbroucke has been exploring the relation of literary formalism to the human body in a way few writers, if any, are doing.
Art
Painting Isn’t Dead! It’s Just Slow
Quicktime takes its cue from Raphael Rubinstein’s “Provisional Painting,” published in the May 2009 issue of Art in America. In the essay, Rubinstein discusses a handful of artists who seem to “turn away from ‘strong’ painting” in favor of works “that look casual, dashed-off, tentative, unfinished o
Art
At the 2017 Dallas Art Fair, Big Ambitions and the Big Mo
Mayor Mike Rawlings recently announced that the city’s annual Dallas Arts Week would become Dallas Arts Month, starting on April 1. Its centerpiece, the Dallas Art Fair, now in its ninth edition, has become a symbol of the local arts scene’s impressive growth and increasing momentum.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Albert Oehlen
The long-reigning bad boy of German painting has consistently poked and prodded at whatever preciousness we associate with the medium.
Art
Explore a Growing Archive of American Gardens with a New Smithsonian App
Smithsonian Gardens launched a free app to share and collect American gardening stories, from 19th-century Detroit potato patches to community greenspaces in vacant lots.