Art

Drinking Tea with Tom Sachs

I'm eating a single Ritz cracker, its underbelly embellished with a creamy wave of peanut butter.

Comics

The Normal Artist

I have pretty severe anxiety.

Opinion

Required Reading

This week, the brilliance of Gordon Parks, sculptor wasps, tourists and archeological sites, Bridget Riley on her art, bad art, and more.

Opinion

Weekend Words: Wax

"Being kissed by a man who didn’t wax his mustache was — like eating an egg without salt."

Books

Reader's Diary: Daniel Hoffman's ‘Next to Last Words’

On its last day of existence — or, more particularly, on a day after its last day, when it reopened just for this purpose — the St. Mark’s Bookshop sold off all of its remaining stock at $2 a copy.

Art

A Dying Society: Abel Gance’s 'End of the World'

Abel Gance’s 1931 film End of the World certainly did represent the “end” of a very important thing: the director’s career as a great cinema pioneer.

Art

Angela Dufresne Has a Big Heart

Dufresne’s drawings are humorous, whimsical, tender, odd, sarcastic, fantastic, sympathetic, and sweet. She celebrates the wacky and wonderful side of human behavior when overtaken by erotic passion, as well as reaches inexplicable places in our imagination.

Art

The Music Must Go On

I don’t think it is hard to understand why Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s pencil drawings depict dejected, often isolated figures from a domain that is simultaneously fairy tale, horror story, and dream.

Art

Beer with a Painter: Bill Scott

Last summer, Bill Scott and I were invited to participate in final critiques at the Mount Gretna School of Art. Critiques are usually predictable affairs, but I was surprised by Scott’s interactions with the students.

Art

Campers, Sunsets, and Junkyards: Sarah Braman’s Containers of Light

I'd call Sarah Braman's show at Mitchell-Innes & Nash a breakthrough were it not for her slow and steady ascent.

Art

Elise Ansel’s Ab-Ex Annunciation

The stated goal of New York City-born, Portland, Maine-based painter Elise Ansel is “re-creating, re-visioning, and re-presenting” paintings from the past.

Art

Dissections of Desire: Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s ‘Rosebud’

Chase, who is black and queer, shows the power of his subjects by exposing just how vulnerable they are.