Books
An Artist Who Cultivates Deadly Plants and Photographs Them
Matthew M. Kaelin takes pictures of carnivorous plants to highlight their beautiful and fatal details.
Latest
In Brief
Wall Street Trader Claims Art Historian Sold Him 24 Fake Leon Golubs
A Wall Street hedge fund manager and art collector is suing a mother-son duo who allegedly sold him 24 fake paintings by Leon Golub.
Art
Conjuring the Specters of Black Silent Film Actors
In Gary Simmons' newest work, he uses the names of silent screen actors of color and renders them in white paint, bleeding down against a black background like stigmata that suddenly appeared by divine intervention on the gallery’s walls.
Art
A Divided Reception for Doris Salcedo’s Memorial in Bogotá
At the same time that Doris Salcedo's intervention received unanimous praise from the press, it also drew criticism from local artists and political activists alike.
Art
Remembering Little Syria, a Forgotten Manhattan Neighborhood
From the 1880s to 1940s, a community of mostly Arab Americans thrived in a Lower Manhattan neighborhood that would later be the site of the World Trade Center.
Performance
24 Hours of Greek Tragedy and Dionysian Debauchery
Jan Fabre's Mount Olympus stitches together more than a dozen classical Greek plays and is unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed.
Comics
Stress Eating Your Way Through the Presidential Debate
What's your food of choice?
Art
Lost in an Art Historian’s Annals of 1960s–70s NYC
To enter Douglas Crimp’s exhibition at Galerie Buchholz is to enter a state of overwhelm.
Performance
A Play on the Usual Underground Railroad Story
In the play Underground Railroad Game, currently at Ars Nova, there is no clear North and South on the compass of racialized human desire.
Announcement
VCUarts Department of Sculpture + Extended Media Announces New Faculty: Irvin Morazan and Massa Lemu
Morazan and Lemu join VCUarts Sculpture + Extended Media faculty members Corin Hewitt, Michael Jones McKean, Kendall Buster, Carlton Newton and Matt King.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MjEyMTIsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjo0ODk3MDcsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjayI6e30sImNyIjoxNzQwOTI5LCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjIwNjY
Opinion
The Potency of a Kitschy Picabia Nude
The artist’s “Nu de Do” makes a blue-chip, cock-rock show at Gagosian Gallery worthwhile.
Art
Paying Tribute to Lillian Schwartz, a Computer Art Pioneer
Although Schwartz has been producing computer art since the '60s, she's only now receiving her first solo exhibition in New York.