Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the failure of OWS, Instagram's impact on photography, the dominant aesthetic of the last decade, populist art from the Syrian civil war, Emily Dickinson as radical, and more.
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Opinion
Weekend Words: Hell
"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."
Books
Reader’s Diary: Juliana Spahr’s ‘That Winter the Wolf Came’
Poetry not always but periodically seeks its upper limit — music, as readers of Louis Zukofsky know — and that includes Juliana Spahr’s.
Art
Sylvia Plimack Mangold Has the Floor
Plimack Mangold’s floor and ruler paintings are smart, tough, assured, direct and, more than forty years after she did them, they remain challenging: works in which she literally and figuratively cleared a space for herself in ways that have yet to be fully recognized.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Sam Gilliam
“I’m just getting started,” Sam Gilliam says with a playful smile as he watches me take in his Washington, D.C. studio.
Books
Only Abandoned: The Poetry of Marcel Broodthaers
Midway through the retrospective of Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers currently at the Museum of Modern Art, the visitor comes across the witty short film La Pluie (Projet pour un texte) [The Rain (Project for a text), 1969].
Music
Bowie's Last Role
There’s never been an album quite like David Bowie’s "Blackstar" in rock & roll history.
Art
Starkly Alien and Intimately Familiar: Maria Bussmann's Drawings of Numbers and Words
I first saw Maria Bussmann’s work in a group exhibition at the James Nicholson Gallery in 2005, where she showed two very different sets of drawings.
In Brief
With Its Own Arts Center, Beast Jesus Rises Again
It was inevitable: Beast Jesus is getting its very own arts center in its home of Borja, Spain.
Art
Stitching Oakland's History into Painterly Quilts
Last year, the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland (AAQGO) — a group of about 80 women who meet monthly at senior centers amid sheafs of fabric and spools of colorful thread — embarked on an ambitious project: They would create narrative quilts that told the complex social, political, and cultur
Art
Ding Dong, Death Calling: 1920s Tombstone Salesman Paintings
Ricco/Maresca Gallery in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood is showing a grid of 16 tombstone paintings created in 1929 by one E.B. Roberts in English, Indiana, for this itinerant trade.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: an anonymous artist blindfolded 100 public statues in Rio de Janeiro, Venice was declared Europe's most endangered heritage site, and the National Academy revealed plans to sell its buildings on Fifth Avenue.