Comics
How I Feel About Making Art About Myself
In "real" life I hate feeling vulnerable.
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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.
News
Virginia Arts Commissioners Threaten to Defund Museum Over "Anti-Christian" Paintings
Members of a Virginia arts commission are calling a pair of Mark Ryden paintings blasphemous and threatening to slash funding for the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art for including them in a forthcoming show.
Art
Surreal Sculptures Come to Life in Yeasayer's Trippy New Video
“Where’s my head?” sing Chris Keating and Anand Wilder of psych-pop band Yeasayer in “Silly Me,” a track off their new album Amen & Goodbye.