Art

The Party We Are All Invited To

Jessica Stockholder lives in a contingent domain, which means it is very much like the one where most of us live.

Art

Disconnected Realities: The Art of David Barnett

Perhaps it was the joy of seeing contemporary art that could have fit comfortably within the Dadaglobe Reconstructed exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, that opened my eyes so widely to Barnett's magic.

Music

Prince's 'Sign o’ the Times,' Part II (The Law of Genre)

Since genre is a perceived, externally imposed category rather than an intrinsic musical element, the job of assigning genre usually falls to the critic.

Music

Prince's 'Sign o’ the Times,' Part I (A Solitary Genius)

For an ostensible masterpiece, Prince’s Sign o’ the Times (1987) is suspiciously lacking in overt concept.

Opinion

Monty Python Goes to the Art Museum

Given that so much of Monty Python's humor was predicated on testing and twisting codes of civility and decorum, it's surprising their Flying Circus didn't alight more frequently in that most stuffily decorous setting, the art museum.

Opinion

Discovering a Downtown New York Artist Who Disappeared for 30 Years

I had never heard of Jill Kroesen before a Whitney Museum press release landed in my inbox a few months ago

Opinion

Ellsworth Kelly Explains His Relationship to Abstraction

"I've always lived in the present tense, and I like my paintings to be in the present tense," Ellsworth Kelly begins his interview with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in 2013.

Opinion

When the Performance Artist Mr. Peanut Ran for Mayor in 1974

In 1974, artist Victor Trasov ran for mayor of Vancouver under the guise of his performance art persona, Mr. Peanut.

Opinion

A Glimpse of Photography's Hand-Colored Past

In the days when black-and-white photography reigned, professional colorists took on the task of creating technicolor views by meticulously painting pictures by hand.

Opinion

Kara Walker’s Puppets Dance in a New Music Video for Santigold

Even if you're familiar with artist Kara Walker’s signature shadow puppets, you've probably never seen them looking as cheerful as they do in electro-pop artist Santigold’s new music video.

Opinion

Simon Says This Is the Best Music Video Filmed in a Museum

For his 1999 hit single "Simon Says," the Queens rapper Pharoahe Monch used one of the borough's most sci-fi structures as a post-apocalyptic battleground.

Opinion

Cruising Through Ed Ruscha’s Career in Seven Minutes

Despite his resistance to the characterization, Ed Ruscha has a reputation as a quintessential Los Angeles artist.