Art
In contrast to other Abstract Expressionists, most notably Robert Motherwell, Richard Pousette-Dart saw prints as a beginning, a surface to work on. He goes over them with acrylic, gouache, graphite, and ink.
Art
Cecily Brown is genuinely interested in all the ways a body experiencing pleasure can occupy space. In her drawings she records the results of her curiosity, her looking.
News
Post-Thanksgiving realities.
Interview
“It’s been my most productive summer ever,” Alex Katz declares. “The real work is here, though,” he tells me, unrolling pounce paper to show me his preparatory drawings. “I want to go even bigger,” he says.
Music
Vocal snobs had better get used to Auto-Tune, because it ain’t going away.
Art
Marilyn Gold is a painter; Robert Guillot makes sculpture and drawings. Both have been working in New York for decades. As their studio output indicates, they have profoundly different interests and divergent means of exploring them.
Art
A snapshot of a singularly unhinged moment in American politics has inadvertently envisioned an uncertain and potentially terrifying future.
Art
Carl Burton's "Islands: Non-Places" is an interactive exploration into the strangeness of the mass-produced modern world.
Books
Artists and designers through the age have imposed their visions of the present and future on an always-changing New York.
Books
The emergence of artificial darkness in the 19th century, from the darkroom to the theater, radically influenced our experiences with art.
Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art's ornate table fountain, a 14th-century hydraulic automata, is the focus of a new exhibition on the popular medieval decorative objects.
Books
Yale University released a book that recreates through photographs the enigmatic medieval Voynich Manuscript in its full form.