Interview
No Rest Cures for the Wicked: An Interview with Psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster
A psychoanalyst and cultural commentator, Jamieson Webster upends academic discourses on a daily basis.
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Art
Weekend Studio Visit: Richard Hull in East Village, Chicago
There is something wonderfully incongruous about what Richard Hull calls his “stolen portraits.”
Art
The Beauty of Absent Bodies
Whoever thought that Carl Andre’s joyless, hug-the-floor sculpture was the logical culmination of Brancusi got it wrong. This kind of thinking strikes me as macho, competitive, and prescriptive.
Opinion
This Is Not Parody. Fuck Trump.
Right-wing political activists tried to fool a Brooklyn gallery into showing their pro-Trump art; they screamed censorship when they were found out. What is this really all about?
Art
Hurricane Frank: Rhetorical Abstraction in the Age of the Incidental Viewer
If Frank Stella’s ambition and insatiable visual voracity were exhilarating at first, the paintings’ often overbearing size and physicality also left the viewer, time and again, with the unsettling feeling of being wrestled to the ground.
Art
Kenji Fujita's Vernacular of Accumulation
Binary oppositions get slammed a lot in our “rhizome”-besotted era, sometimes with interesting results.
Performance
Downtown Tyrant: Romeo Castellucci's Julius Caesar in New York
Long a darling of the European festival circuit, Romeo Castellucci and his Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio have since the 1980s presented a visually driven, philosophical theater, often with classical references and the provocative presence of animals and the animality of humans.
Art
What We Are Asked to See
We may choose to partake of the comfort that Sarah McEneaney’s scenes of domestic tranquility have to offer. Or we may choose to probe deeper.
Art
The Eternal Returns of Richard Pousette-Dart
In a socially boisterous art world inspired by Existentialism, jazz, and booze, Richard Pousette-Dart preferred introversion, secular spiritualism, and depth psychology.
Art
Yoko Ono’s Art in Remote Japan: Traveling Far to See the Sky
In a woodsy patch of a park tucked next to a stream, one of Yoko Ono’s most unusual creations can be found in what is, for any artist’s work, a most unexpected setting.
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News
St Louis Museum Embroiled in Controversy as Staff Member Reputedly Attacked, Boycott Underway [UPDATED]
Two incidents this week at the Contemporary Art Museum St Louis suggests the controversy around the current Kelley Walker exhibition continues to escalate.
Art
Be a Better Robert Moses in Games that Deconstruct His Legacy
A competition challenged developers to reinterpret a biography of the "master builder" as interactive experiences.