Interview
Steven Nelson, professor of art history at UCLA, and Director of the African Studies Center, recently tweeted that he is a member of a rare and exceptional group: one of six full professors in art history, who are black, in the United States.
Art
MEXICO CITY — Although presented as a series of discrete events across time, history is written every day through humanity’s incessant production of time-sensitive ephemera that define the aesthetics, sounds, and languages of our epoch.
Comics
The annual obligatory holiday Christmas "Affordable" end-of-season "fine craft" starving artist deck-the-walls art sale!
Opinion
This week, serious landscape painting, profiling the Met's Sheena Wagstaff, living in a Frank Lloyd Wright home, the first thing ever purchased on the internet, and more.
Opinion
Today is the 100th birthday of Billy (“Take the A Train”) Strayhorn.
Performance
In the final phase of Performa 15, which ended on November 22, a couple of performances turned profitably to music, creating synergies with standardized hand gestures in one case and the dynamics of theater lighting in the other.
Art
When I first wrote about Mary Heilmann for Artforum (January 1987), one thing I had in mind was the strong impression that her first great painting, “Save the Last Dance for Me” (1979), had made on me some years earlier, when I saw it at the Holly Solomon Gallery.
Music
Put on the new Grimes album and prepare for 50 minutes of squeal.
Books
This past spring, the Danish Museet for Samtids Kunst acknowledged the hard-won singularity of countryman Jacob Kirkegaard by granting him his first solo exhibition, Earside Out.
Art
PHILADELPHIA — Most of Jan Baltzell’s recent paintings, currently on view at the Schmidt Dean Gallery in Philadelphia, are on Mylar. DuPont, in the 1950s, was an early developer of Mylar, which is made of stretched polyester.
Art
LOS ANGELES — So much of Los Angeles geography is characterized by fences, doors, and distance, to keep some of us in and others out.
Art
On an island in a pond behind the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet sits the Lukhang Temple, or "Temple to the Serpent Spirits," a secret meditation space created by the Dalai Lama in the 17th century.