Art
The Abstract Patterns of Sound on Dusty Speaker Covers
There are no drawings on the walls for the Drawing Center's current exhibition — at least, none you may define in the conventional sense of the medium.
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Art
After Flint Water Crisis, Police Murders, and More, Midwestern Artists Get Mad
TOLEDO, Ohio — Midwesterners are many things, but they aren’t, as a rule, complainers.
News
Peter Doig Wins Bizarre Court Battle, Proving He Didn’t Make a Painting
One of the most bizarre art authentication cases in recent memory came to a close yesterday with a federal judge’s ruling that Peter Doig did not paint a desert scene signed “Pete Doige 76.”
Opinion
Wanna Be a Tate Curator? Don't Quit Your Day Job!
In mid June, Tate opened the £260 million expansion of Tate Modern, the Switch House. In mid August, it posted three job listings for assistant curator positions at Tate Britain and Tate Modern with starting annual salaries of £24,360.
Art
An Indian Modernist’s Abstractions of Famine and War
In Rabin Mondal’s most iconic paintings, amphibious characters resembling frogs stare out of the canvas.
Interview
An Artist Channels His Anxiety About Painting into Painting
“So, the best approach [to wooing galleries] is, as you suggested, crawling on your hands and knees,” writes renowned art-world insider Howard Moseley, M.D.
Art
A Supper Club Invites Artists of Color to Discuss Sanctuary and Safety
On Friday, August 5, I attended a dinner held at the 8th Floor, an exhibition and event space founded by philanthropists Shelley and Donald Rubin and artistic directed by Sara Reisman.
News
5Pointz Owner Reneges on Promise to Use Union Labor, Sparking Protest
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Long Island City yesterday to protest the almost complete absence of unionized workers at the 5Pointz redevelopment site — despite a promise by the project’s developer that he would only employ union workers for the job.
Interview
“I Am an Invented Character”: A Performance Artist on Living in His Utopia
“I am back in New York. My lungs need poison air,” began Papo Colo in one of his recent emails to me.
Art
The Dying Typographic Art of Cutting Letters into Steel
In a smoky atelier in Torino, Italy, Giuseppe Branchino works as one of the world’s last punch cutters.
Books
A Graphic Novel Chronicles Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Years
Woody Guthrie was responding to the hardships of the Great Depression, but he may as well have been singing about now.
Art
Exhuming Edinburgh's Hidden Stories
EDINBURGH — “Scotland is a canny nation when it comes to remembering and forgetting,” wrote the poet Jackie Kay.