Opinion
Weekend Words: Mars
Farewell to Ziggy, Weird and Gilly, and The Spiders from Mars.
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Performance
Foucault Dancing and Future Tragedy: The APAP Performance Festivals in New York
APAP/NYC, the annual conference of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, has hit town. PS122's COIL, the Public Theater's Under the Radar, HERE's Prototype, Abrons Arts Center's American Realness and other festivals all over the city aim to lure bookings for shows by presenting work around
Art
Katherine Bradford Dives In
I certainly wasn’t the only person to be dazzled by Katherine Bradford’s breakthrough show, Desire for Transport, at Edward Thorp, nearly a decade ago.
Art
Outsider Art Fair Preview: Discoveries, Surprises, and an Expanded Vision
The 24th annual Outsider Art Fair opens in New York on January 21, and never before has the scope of what might qualify as — or, more precisely, of what is being called — outsider art seemed so diverse or vast.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Gregory Amenoff
“I love it here, but this isn’t my true home,” Gregory Amenoff says, looking out the window of his studio in Ulster County, New York. “Too green,” he declares.
Art
History Repeating Itself: Tragedy, Farce, and Judith Bernstein
With her remarkable new exhibition at Mary Boone — her second at the gallery in eight months — Judith Bernstein resurrects the imagery of her Vietnam-era works in a savage takedown of contemporary American politics and its testosterone-fueled will to power.
Books
Success Secrets of a Famous Cat Photographer
Once upon a time, there was but One Cat Photographer to Rule Them All.
Art
Artistic Encounters with Our Toxic Waters
On a light gray day last October, I donned a pair of oversize galoshes and life jacket, picked up a paddle, climbed into a rowboat, and set out on Newtown Creek.
News
Oklahoma City School Discovers More 1917 Chalkboards Hidden in Its Walls
Chalkboard drawings from nearly a century ago were uncovered in the walls of a downtown Oklahoma City school.
Art
Digital Worlds Stretch the Limits of What’s Possible
Upon entering the Bed-Stuy gallery American Medium — which sits just off Nostrand Avenue as a peculiar, fluorescent-lit dot in a sea of brownstones and Jamaican digs — one finds oneself confronted with the reverberating sounds of Adam Basanta’s sculpture “A Line Listening.”
Art
The Vast Possibilities of Tiny Collage and Assemblage
You might want to bring your reading glasses to The Tiny Picture Show at Pavel Zoubok Gallery, because some of the suckers on view are really tiny.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: revisiting William Boyd and David Bowie's art world hoax, Stephen Colbert interviews the Guerrilla Girls, and Larry Gagosian sues the royal family of Qatar over a Picasso sculpture.