Art
A Forest of Chaos and Control
Trees frequently figure in Oehlen’s work. As a formal device, it allows freedom of invention, but the invention is structured by internal logic.
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Art
Remembering Martin Kippenberger’s Self-Performance
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
A New Guide Maps the Overlooked Brutalism of Paris
The Brutalist Paris Map plots 40 sites of postwar architecture in Paris that are far off the well-trod tourist path.
Art
Audubon's 'Birds of America,' Updated for Our Polluted World
Artist John LaMacchia seamlessly integrates human trash into detailed bird portraits that mimic Audubon's watercolors.
Books
The Radical Posters of a British Women’s Art Workshop
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
Artistic Expressions of Math Over Seven Centuries
Picturing Math at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has prints dating back to the 15th century, all expressing the beauty of mathematics.
Opinion
The Sculpture of a "Fearless Girl" on Wall Street Is Fake Corporate Feminism
The bronze statue installed by an advertising firm and a financial firm represents basically everything that’s wrong with our society.
Performance
A Performance Unpacks Our Relationship to the Things We Keep Boxed Up
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
The Kinetic Possibilities of Salvaged Furniture
Dre Britton breaks down quotidian structures and rebuilds them, yielding constructions that are both vaguely familiar and vaguely alien.
Art
Surveying a Sculptor's Audacious Public Art Interventions
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
Gabriel Orozco Has Given Up Making 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.
Art
With a New Expansion, the Leslie-Lohman Museum Broadens Its View of Queer Art
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in Soho has doubled in size, with a new exhibition that offers the opportunity to reconsider what constitutes queer art.