Opinion
Required Reading
This week, being trolled by Fox News, a photograph that took 720,000 exposures to get right, Lee Miller's war photography, ISIS and looting, drones catching drones, and more.
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Opinion
Weekend Words: Gun
The New York Times reports that fear of restrictive gun laws causes a spike in gun sales.
Books
Vision, Music, and the Scepter: Ben Mazer’s 'The Glass Piano'
Ben Mazer may best be considered a poet for poets; his work a fortress against the common reader.
Art
Ray Yoshida’s Foresight
What do Roger Brown, Sarah Canright, Jordan Davies, Ed Flood, Art Green, Philip Hanson, Richard Hull, Jin Soo Kim, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca, Barbara Rossi, William Schwedler, Rebecca Shore, Chris Ware, Karl Wirsum and Mary Lou Zelazny have in common?
Books
Humanizing an “Enigma”: A New Book Illuminates Martín Ramírez’s Life and Art
What is known with certainty about an artist’s life story can undoubtedly shed the light of understanding on his or her achievements and legacy. But what happens when authoritative historical documents, personal letters, photos, diaries and other materials have not been consulted or are scarce or ev
Interview
Calling Occupants: A Conversation with Miguel Gomes
Since the release of his 2004 feature debut The Face You Deserve, Portugal’s Miguel Gomes has become arguably the most exhilaratingly perplexing figure in world cinema.
Art
Seeking the Real at Art Basel Miami Beach
So where were they? An Inside Art column published in The New York Times a week before the opening of Art Basel Miami Beach dangled the prospect of a more inclusive fair this year, one that would feature “A Focus on Female Artists,” as the headline put it.
Art
The Rise of the 20th-Century Yearbook Smile
With their standard formats and widespread availability, high school yearbooks represent a historical data set of 20th-century style. They also capture how our tendency to smile in photographs has intensified over time.
News
New Site Lets You Report Facebook and Other Networks When They Censor Art
Nudity in art has been around for thousands of years, but Facebook still can't take it.
Art
Archeologists Discover 400-Year-Old Hearts in Lead Boxes
Five heart-shaped lead boxes dating to the 16th and 17th centuries were exhumed from the basement of the Convent of the Jacobins in Rennes, France.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: Banksy unveiled new works at a refugee camp in France, the Rijksmuseum began removing offensive and racially charged terms from its digitized collection, and the National Parks Service is looking to hire a full-time photographer for a salary of up to $99,296 a year.
Art
Muddying the Circumscribed Myth of Abstraction
Bounded and unbounded space, continental drift, turbulence, topology, pools of ink and color spilling into and pressing up against one another — these are some of the images in the mix of work on display in Endless, Entire, one of two shows currently on view at FiveMyles in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.