Art
At Greenpoint Open Studios, Facing Many Closed Doors
Bankers talk about art and artists talk about money, according to Oscar Wilde.
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Marisol, Innovative Pop Art Sculptor Written Out of History, Dies at 85
Marisol Escobar, whose penetrating and playful, large-scale wooden sculptures were their own unique blend of Pop and folk art, died on Saturday morning, April 30, at the age of 85, El Universal reported.
Announcement
School of Visual Arts Continuing Education Summer 2016 Information Sessions
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Art
We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes: Manhattan’s Psycho Summer
New York City is creeping towards a psycho kind of summer.
Art
Charting Chinese History with 17th-Century Jesuit World Maps
Mounted on remnants of the old Ming Dynasty city wall, which once surrounded Beijing, are Western clocks and astronomical instruments for observing celestial bodies.
Art
Uncanny Films About the Traumas of War
Omer Fast’s unsettling videos about the trauma of combat linger in one’s mind.
Comics
My Mother-in-law, the Docent
A very special kind of tour.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the new SFMOMA, artist-gallery breakups, Obama and the Churchill bust, portraits out of data, Moscow's tacky art problem, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Alliance
"Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."
Books
Reader’s Diary: Edward St. Aubyn’s ‘The Patrick Melrose Novels’ (Continued)
When I left off last week I was halfway through this quartet of low-life-in-the-midst-of-high-life novels, dissatisfied with the series’ prelude, Never Mind, but encouraged by the relative superiority of book two, Bad News.
Art
David Reed’s Panorama
The last time David Reed showed paintings in New York was in 2007, nearly a decade ago.
Art
Lui Shtini’s Enigmatic Paintings
I imagine that Lui Shtini has a growing group of admirers – many of them painters – just as Myron Stout, Christina Ramberg, Barbara Rossi, and Thomas Nozkowski did before him.