In Brief
It is the botched restoration that just keeps giving. Beast Jesus — the "Ecce Homo" fresco that now resembles a primate thanks to octonagerian restorer Cecilia Giménez — will make its stage debut this month.
Comics
Sometimes being an artist requires interacting with the public.
Art
Manhattan is full of dicks. Keith Haring, perhaps the most famous 1980s pop and graffiti artist to come out of New York’s downtown scene, knew this well.
Art
DETROIT — It's an art world convention for conceptual art to be disruptive, or at least leave the viewer feeling unsettled, somewhat uncomfortable.
Opinion
This week, why we need art, art students today, office design in Tokyo, meth in North Korea, a 17th-century Turkish travel writer, writing the other, and more.
Opinion
"When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos."
Books
This is not so much a second novel as a mature reimagining of what a youthful first novel might have been.
Art
The legendary curator Dorothy Miller first obtained a Richard Hunt sculpture for the Museum of Modern Art in 1957.
Art
We should all be inspired by Alma Thomas’s optimism.
Art
HOUSTON, Texas — In this long, hot summer of violence, election-campaign anxiety, and widespread malaise, seekers of relief might find solace in music, movies or visits to museums — that is, in art in general, not so much for escapism, but for art’s reassuring messages about the endurance of the hum
Film
Chantal Akerman’s death by suicide in October 2015, led me to revisit many of her films and to watch new ones, among them Je tu il elle of 1975.
Art
If measured as a flame to kindling, John D. Graham was arguably the most consequential figure in 20th-century American art.