Art

Steve Keister’s Cargo Cult of One

The first thing that makes Keister an outlier is that he made sculpture that you didn’t back into, but which you bumped your head against.

Art

Branden Koch Looks at America and Doesn’t Like What He Sees

There are eighty works on paper in the exhibition, Branden Koch: Bald Ego at Regina Rex, all of which speak to and about the dilemma of being an artist and sympathetic human being in America under the current regime.

Art

Dicks at War

What did the Tomahawks accomplish?

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.

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.