Art
“Jamaica, no problem!” a local adage advises, serving as a reminder that, here, life unfolds, and big events like biennial art exhibitions materialize according to their own rhythms and in their own good time.
Art
Trees frequently figure in Oehlen’s work. As a formal device, it allows freedom of invention, but the invention is structured by internal logic.
Art
His drunken antics and grand gestures amounted to a life that New York Times art critic Roberta Smith once called “an extended, alcohol-fueled performance piece.”
Books
The Brutalist Paris Map plots 40 sites of postwar architecture in Paris that are far off the well-trod tourist path.
Art
Artist John LaMacchia seamlessly integrates human trash into detailed bird portraits that mimic Audubon's watercolors.
Books
The See Red Women’s Workshop, which ran from 1974 to 1990, began with a newspaper ad calling for female visual artists "to combat images of the ‘model woman.’”
Art
Picturing Math at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has prints dating back to the 15th century, all expressing the beauty of mathematics.
Opinion
The bronze statue installed by an advertising firm and a financial firm represents basically everything that’s wrong with our society.
Performance
Before Geoff Sobelle's performance The Object Lesson begins, the audience is invited to riffle through the hundreds of boxes piled high around the theater.
Art
Dre Britton breaks down quotidian structures and rebuilds them, yielding constructions that are both vaguely familiar and vaguely alien.
Art
Erlich does not challenge the public to find meaning in his work but entices them with imagery that leaves them receptive to multiple perspectives.
Art
The artist's new installation in Mexico City, a functioning convenience store inside a gallery, peddles a false analogy between art and disposable commodities.