Opinion
Weekend Words: Stab
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson defended himself this week against charges from the media that he did not try to stab another teenager in his youth.
Latest
Art
X Marks the Spot: E. J. McAdams’s Sculptural Nature Writing
Taking its title from a line in Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, E.J. McAdams’ site-specific installation, “Trees Are Alphabets,” consists of salvaged sawed-off tree branches, most about seven or eight feet long, sculpturally arranged on the terrace of The Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Art
Slip, Sliding Away with John Walker
What do Richard Diebenkorn and John Walker have in common? When they sink their teeth into something, they aren’t likely to let it go.
Interview
Don’t Spook the Horse: Carroll Dunham on His New Work
The odd one out in Carroll Dunham’s current exhibition of paintings at Barbara Gladstone is “Culture as a Verb” (2013-2015). It’s the closest thing Dunham, or anyone in my recent memory, has come to painting the feeling of terrified, paranoid sorrow.
Art
Class Disjunctions: Dutch Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Even to the trained eye, there is something unrelenting about most seventeenth-century Dutch art.
Art
Mapping the Body: Mark Bradford’s New Work
Three years ago I wrote a review titled “Is Mark Bradford the Best Painter in America?” It wasn’t an altogether serious question, but it wasn’t facetious either.
Art
At a Queer Film Festival, a Collective Offers to Digitize Your Videos for Free
It’s the opening night of MIX NYC’s 28th New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, and at the entrance to the festival’s art installations, XFR Collective (pronounced “transfer collective”) has set up their decks and monitors, ready for work.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: London's Science Museum decided not to renew its sponsorship deal with Shell, Russian artist and activist Pyotr Pavlensky was detained for setting fire to the entrance of Moscow's FSB headquarters, and Laurie Anderson and Sophie Calle got hitched.
Art
At Performa, Two Poets Make Online Language Flexible and Freeing
Poetry readings aren't popular, or easy.
In Brief
Art Historians Find Racist Joke Hidden Under Malevich's "Black Square"
Over the years, many an artistic masterpiece has been discovered hiding beneath layers of paint on reused canvases.
Art
Making Space for Painting in Mexico City, Where Conceptual Art Reigns
MEXICO CITY — In places like Mexico City, where conceptual art with an overt socio-political agenda currently dominates, media such as sculpture, drawing, and painting go completely unnoticed, seen as vain expressions belonging to an expired avant-garde.
Art
An LA Community Fights the “Discovery” of Its Neighborhood by Commercial Art Galleries
LOS ANGELES — A normally quiet and industrial stretch of Mission Road that abuts the Los Angeles River came to life on Saturday evening when a group of artists and activists put together a mobile art exhibit celebrating the working-class neighborhood of Boyle Heights.