News
The Fight to Save a Land Art Masterpiece in the Heart of Mexico City
Situated within one of Mexico City's remaining areas of untouched land, Espacio Escultórico is considered by many as one of Latin America's most significant works of land art.
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Art
Cannibalizing the Culture of Colonizers and Other Artistic Strategies
Someone once said to me that for him, one of the famous modernists, I think it was Paul Klee, represented the values of serious play. That idea lingered in cobwebbed corners of my mind until I walked into the Lehmann Maupin's downtown gallery to see Adriana Varejão’s Kindred Spirits when it flashed
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Birmingham Museum of Art’s New Site-Specific Commissions Launch with Bethany Collins
In her new mixed-media installation 'The Problem We All Live With' at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Chicago-based artist Bethany Collins brings attention to the absence of local media coverage during some of the most brutal episodes of The Civil Rights Movement. [http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdi
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Full-Size Replica of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Kicks Off Mexican Tour
Visitors flock to the Sistine Chapel to view Michelangelo's frescoes, but the fingers of God and Adam are now also meeting in Mexico City in a recently revealed, full-size replica of the entire building.
Art
Pondering and Painting Giorgio Morandi’s Precise Compositions
I wait around in the Center for Italian Modern Art’s kitchen before the tour of the Giorgio Morandi exhibition begins.
Comics
The Painter's Journey
This is how it begins.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Alex Israel shlock, Brooklyn's most famous building, Howard Hodgkins is unhappy (in life), John Cage meets Sun Ra, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Indecent
"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them."
Books
Reader’s Diary: ‘Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners'
What happens when you cross the perfervid emotionalism of Edna St. Vincent Millay, she of the candle burning at both ends, with Charles Olson’s idea, distilled out of William Carlos Williams, of a projective verse imbued with “the breathing of the man who writes” (and I suppose it is very emphatical
Books
Arthur Vogelsang Takes Us into Orbit
Being a poet in America is like being a submarine: you might be seen when you pop up, and, as a rule, people don’t go looking for you.
Art
Restless and Rigid
The work of Lee Mullican and others, including his friend Gordon Onslow Ford, shatters the myth that the only radical art being made in America in the 1940s and ’50s was by the Abstract Expressionists.
Art
The Political Art of Alicia Grullón
Like the food on our supermarket shelves, public artworks appear to us with their history of labor relations mostly obscured.