Art
At Bernie Sanders’s Official Art Show, the Candidate Meets His Muppet Avatar
On Saturday night, Bernie Sanders visited an art gallery in the East Village.
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Film
A Documentary Tribute to Chris Burden's Extreme Oeuvre
Perhaps most surprising about the new film Burden, directed by Timothy Marrinan and Richard Dewey and screening at the Tribeca Film Festival, is its depiction of artist Chris Burden’s dramatic transformation from a rabble-rousing student in the 1970s to a mild-mannered landowner in 2014.
Art
An Artist Duo’s Shocking Stop-Motion Animations and Hypnotic Installations
PERTH — The exhibition, a collaboration between Hans Berg and artist Nathalie Djurberg, has been titled Secret Garden, and naturally, given all of its enchantment and ambience, immediate associations arise to Alice and the gardens of Wonderland. But there’s a lot more going on here.
Art
Beyond Drips: Investigating Jackson Pollock’s Many Artistic Phases
"Come over here to the drips," a visitor at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) advised friends.
Comics
What I Think About When I Look at Art Magazines
So many memories, and they aren't always of the art.
News
Guggenheim Breaks Off Negotiations with Gulf Labor Over Migrant Rights
On April 13, the Guggenheim Board of Trustees informed the Gulf Labor Coalition that it will no longer negotiate with the group regarding the living and working conditions of the workers who are and will be building its museum in Abu Dhabi.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the attention web, Art Institute of Chicago's rehanging, Superman's Jewishness, Libeskind in Kurdistan, defining neoliberalism, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Fraud
"Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent."
Books
Reader's Diary: Franklin Bruno's 'Armed Forces’
I keep wondering whether it’s really possible to write at length and in depth about this kind of music.
Art
The Wild Children of William Blake
Raymond Foye – who possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of various underground currents of poetry, music, and art – is the only person on the planet who could have conceived of this exhibition, Dark Star: Abstraction and Cosmos at Planthouse.
Art
Conversations Can Be a Way of Moving Forward: Melissa Meyer’s Category-Resistant Abstractions
Since 2001, Melissa Meyer has continued to reinvent herself without severing her connections to Abstract Expressionism or, more particularly, the brushstroke and drawing in paint.
Art
Out of Time: Stephen Greene’s 1960s Abstractions
Visiting the exhibition of Stephen Greene’s paintings from the 1960s at the Jason McCoy Gallery is like hearing a squat black dial telephone ring next to an ashtray holding a freshly lit cigarette, the smoke curling up into a shaft of sunlight.