Comics
A Shy Artist in Public
Sometimes being an artist requires interacting with the public.
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Art
Keith Haring Envisions Manhattan as a Kingdom of Penises
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
Three Artists Blur the Line Between Art and Play
DETROIT — It's an art world convention for conceptual art to be disruptive, or at least leave the viewer feeling unsettled, somewhat uncomfortable.
Opinion
Required Reading
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
Weekend Words: Withdraw
"When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos."
Books
Reader’s Diary: Darryl Pinckney's ‘Black Deutschland’
This is not so much a second novel as a mature reimagining of what a youthful first novel might have been.
Art
Is It Possible to See What Is There?
The legendary curator Dorothy Miller first obtained a Richard Hunt sculpture for the Museum of Modern Art in 1957.
Art
Under No Obligation
We should all be inspired by Alma Thomas’s optimism.
Art
In Houston, an Outsider Art Trove Finds a Museum Home
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
Hunger and Thirst: Chantal Akerman's 'Je tu il elle'
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
The Enabler
If measured as a flame to kindling, John D. Graham was arguably the most consequential figure in 20th-century American art.
News
University Plans to Remove Two WPA Murals for Colonial Depictions
Two WPA murals at the University of Wisconsin–Stout are planned to be removed from public view due to their colonial views of Native Americans.