Art
Painting, Performing, and Deconstructing the Body
Jordan Casteel, EJ Hill, and Jibade-Khalil Huffman all use their work to explore the body, whether the subject’s, the artist’s, or the spectator’s.
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Art
A Guide to Urban Havens in NYC, from a Quaker Meeting House to a Bird-Watching Refuge
The National Park Service and the Cultural Landscape Foundation launch a guide to New York City's cultural landscapes as part of a series on urban design.
Announcement
Learn About Massachusetts College of Art and Design's MFA Experience
The Massachusetts College of Art and Design's MFA program includes five separate fine arts disciplines: 2D Fine Arts, 3D Fine Arts, Film/Video, and Photography.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MjYyOCwiYXQiOjIwLCJidCI6MCwiY20iOjQ4NzQxNCwiY2giOjE5MzAsImNrIjp7fSwiY3IiOjE3NDcyOTQsImRtIjo0LCJmYyI6M
Art
A Photographer of Unsettlingly Mundane, Lynchian Images
Roe Ethridge combines a commercial photography practice with his personal life to create diquieting images.
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.
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
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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.