Art
A trove of early printed medical, scientific, and travel books is going up for sale at Swann Auctions, though many are more valuable for the strange beliefs and tastes they betray about their times.
Comics
Back in 1980, drawing the figure meant everything to me.
Art
With 90 artists featured from across the globe at this year's São Paulo biennial, it feels imprudent to cast all the work under a single theme.
Art
As she became a commercial success, Grandma Moses was tagged an “outsider” artist — but she emerged “inside” the art world, among modernists.
Art
This week, the world's tallest tower (again), LA gallery troubles, curating for change, MOCA's ethical issues, branding Ken Bone, and more.
Art
"A penny saved is a penny to squander."
Books
An artist’s fame may continue, or even grow, as the actual works on which it is nominally based are lost from sight.
Books
A translator and critic as well as poet, Alejandra Pizarnik lived between Buenos Aries and Paris, befriending Octavio Paz and Julio Cortazar and identifying with, while not necessarily emulating, the so-called poètes maudites of 19th-century France.
Art
In his best works Cordy Ryman makes something visually arresting out of ordinary materials and paint — stuff you can buy in a hardware store.
Art
The art world did not begin to seriously deal with Jack Whitten’s merger of formal inventiveness and emotional content until the past decade, when he entered his seventies.
Art
A feminist, Florine Stettheimer understood the provocative nature of basing her compositions on the rarely seen female point of view as well as the significance of her choice to create an overtly feminine style.
Music
Whether or not he raised popular music to the level of literature — a meaningless claim lazy boomers have been pushing on the younger generation for years — he certainly assumed the role of the Romantic author-genius in a popular context and made the resulting dialectic thrilling as hell.