Art

A Small, Independent Art School Flourishes in Cambodia

SIEM REAP, Cambodia — Over four million people visited Cambodia in 2014, many of whom came to see Angkor Wat, the country’s most popular tourist destination.

Art

A Monumental Critique of Empire, from Napoleonic to Corporate Times

PARIS — Scattered throughout the cavernous nave of the Grand Palais are mountains of shipping containers.

Comics

How I Feel About Making Art About Myself

In "real" life I hate feeling vulnerable.

Opinion

Required Reading

This week, US architecture's odd couple, Roberta Smith about the new SFMOMA, Taibbi on Trump, censorship in Israel, multi-generational affluence in Florence, animals in art project, and more.

Opinion

Weekend Words: Social

"The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator, which is often socially impressive."

Books

Reader’s Diary: Lorraine Lupo's 'By Way Of'

Cards on the table: I prefer short poems to long ones, slender bodies of work to massive ones. So naturally, I consider the best way to read poetry is not in a book, but in a chapbook.

Art

Have We Been Misreading Jasper Johns All Along? Part Two

I want to focus on Jasper Johns’s three recent monotypes based on a Vietnam-era photograph of an emotionally shattered soldier, which are included in Jasper Johns: Monotypes at Matthew Marks.

Art

Have We Been Misreading Jasper Johns All Along? Part One

Perhaps we have all been reading his work too narrowly since his first show at Leo Castelli, more than a half-century ago.

Music

Esperanza Spalding’s Flow

During the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony in 2011, jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding was awarded Best New Artist, a trophy assumed earmarked for Justin Bieber (who else?), and the scandal that ensued changed the recording industry forever.

Art

Fabricated Galaxies: On Stanley Boxer

Painter Stanley Boxer used the term “manufacture” to describe his process.

Art

And Then There Is Using Whatever Happens: Quentin Morris’s 'Untitled'

When Quentin Morris begins a painting the only thing he knows is that it will be black.

Art

Inclusive, Eclectic, Dazzling: The Paintings of Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann

Mann begins each work with splashes of ink and water across the surface of the paper, prompting a series of painterly moves that invariably lead to extreme, layered, engulfing complexity.