Opinion
Weekend Words: Imbecile
This week, Martin Shkreli, former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, invoked the Fifth Amendment before a House committee investigating the company's fiftyfold price increase of a decades-old drug.
Latest
Books
The Rose-Washed Past: Ron Haviv’s 'Lost Rolls'
I’ve long been fascinated by the various filters for Instagram and other digital camera apps whose names are simply years: 1969, 1972, 1977.
Art
Does the Museum of Modern Art Even Know About This Great Photographer?
In November 1955, four days after Robert Frank was arrested, questioned, and released in Arkansas under the suspicion of being a Communist spy, he took a photograph, ‘‘Trolley — New Orleans’’ (1955), that was included with eighty-two others in his justly famous book, The Americans, which – we should
Art
Balthus in Rome, Where Balls Roam
Recently, I strolled through Balthus's "The Street" (1933) at a retrospective of his work in Rome's Scuderie del Quirinale. Each time I see that remarkable, disturbing painting, I follow the drama of a different dreamer.
Art
History, Music, Freedom: Anri Sala's Art of the Actual
The lingering trauma of repression and the heady, disconcerting repercussions of freedom are tendrils that wend their way throughout Sala’s refined, giddy, somber body of work.
Art
Encircling Darkness: Fred Valentine's Intimate Portraits
It’s an unsentimental portrait, to say the least.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: Utah moved closer to designating "Spiral Jetty" its official state artwork, the Queens Museum announced it will give legendary punk group the Ramones a retrospective, and a mouse died at the Museum of English Rural Life after crawling into a historic mousetrap.
Art
Zona MACO’s Curated Sections Bring a Welcome Coherence to the Art Fair
MEXICO CITY — The 13th edition of Zona MACO, Latin America’s largest art fair, opened here on Wednesday night, bringing 123 galleries from all over the world to the sprawling Centro Banamex convention center.
News
New York Times Sues PowerHouse Books for Copyright Infringement
The New York Times is suing independent publisher PowerHouse Books and its CEO, Daniel Power, over a series of images appearing in a book that's highly critical of the Gray Lady's coverage of war.
In Brief
Egypt Bans Teen Who Climbed and Took Photos Atop the Great Pyramid of Giza
One teenager's daredevil stunt to procure aerial photographs and video of the Egyptian desert has earned him a lifelong ban from the country.
Art
Itinerant and Off-the-Map Galleries Find a Place in Mexico City’s Material Art Fair
MEXICO CITY — International art collectors, guzzling mescal and flexing gaudy taste, are descending on this megalopolis, and will leave on Monday with a hangover and something shiny.
Art
Philosophical Paintings that Bare Their Process
Most artists I know are aware of the painter Sharon Butler, not because she's an overhyped art star, but because of her reputation as a serious, feet-on-the-ground, working artist.