Art
Upbeat and Edgy
With the rise of artists desperate to align themselves with one compromised avant-garde tradition or another, it is useful to remember that Stuart Davis never fit in.
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Interview
Beer with a Painter: Charles Yuen
Charles Yuen’s home in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, is comfortably domestic and suburban in feeling, which somehow surprises me, after having seen his zany and sardonic paintings earlier in the year at Studio10 in Bushwick.
Books
Squaring the Circle
John Peck is the author of ten volumes of poetry, a psychoanalyst, translator of Euripides and C. G. Jung’s The Red Book, a poet under-appreciated by or unfamiliar to most, yet long and deeply admired by a cadre of serious poets and critics on both sides of the Atlantic.
Music
Eleven Stories by Brandy Clark
Country singer Brandy Clark’s new album, Big Day in a Small Town, out since June, is rocking loud and jangling pretty, but the temptation to treat her foremost as a lyricist remains.
Art
Clowns Never Get Caught
Political campaigns, like Jasper Johns’s painting, "Flag," are based on dreams.
Art
The Shelf Life of Political Art
Tucked into a side wall at Postmasters Gallery in Tribeca, as part of a handsome group show called Grayscale, there are five new drawings by William Powhida, one of which is titled “Is Donald Trump an Existential Threat? Or Just A Major Asshole…”
In Brief
Vietnam Museum Admits Exhibition Was Full of Forged Paintings
The Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts has apologized for hosting an exhibition in which 17 paintings purportedly by four of Vietnam's most influential 20th-century painters proved inauthentic.
Art
Pokémon Go Is a Massive Art Happening and You’re All Invited
Sure, here's the update: "It’s been two weeks and there are 35 million search results for Pokémon Go on Google and 9.5 million daily active players in the United States — which means, in terms of users, the augmented reality game has already surpassed its closest competitor, Candy Crush.
Art
Art and Body Politics at the Republican National Convention
CLEVELAND — It may come as no surprise that the Republicans who gathered here for the Republican National Convention put forth a political platform that many considered to be anti-woman.
Art
An Intricately Illustrated 19th-Century Study of Global Fashions
In 1876, French scholar and artist Auguste Racinet published Le Costume historique (The Costume History), an illustrated sartorial tour throughout world history.
Art
Confronting the Fears Detained Immigrants Face in the US
CHICAGO — On a grassy island surrounded by several roads at the center of Chicago’s Logan Square temporarily sits Jenny Polak’s “Mobile Speakers’ Podium for Citizens and Non-Citizens,” a creamy-white structure that at first glance looks like a miniature club house.
News
"Trump Huts" May Crop Up Around US as Luxury Protest Tents
For the first three days of the Republican National Convention, a super-sized version of Donald Trump's signature coiffure swept its way across Cleveland, inviting anyone to enter its gleaming, golden locks.