Opinion
Required Reading
This week, gallerist Marian Goodman speaks, why "bad boy" female artists are ignored, problems with architecture in Chicago, Brian Eno on the ecology of culture, the object that came alive at the British Museum, and more.
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Opinion
Weekend Words: Body
As Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-California) plots his strategy for winning the leadership of his body of Congress, it is worth recalling that he shares his name with the star of the 1956 sci-fi classic, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Books
Mediators! Matadors! Joshua Clover’s 'Red Epic'
A swansong for the millennium has just been written and none too soon; or rather, an evensong for late capitalism’s annihilation.
Art
Recovering Abstraction: McArthur Binion’s Intimate Grids
McArthur Binion’s exhibition, Re: Mine, currently at Galerie Lelong stirred up a swarm of associations while I was looking at it, and the buzz did not die down after I left the gallery and decided to walk home amidst the late afternoon din of Manhattan traffic and people in a rush to get home.
Art
Astrological Aesthetics: October 2015 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
News
Amnesty International Calls for Release of Cuban Dissident Artist
Earlier this week, Amnesty International issued an urgent call for the release of Cuban graffiti and performance artist Danilo Maldonado Machado, also known as El Sexto.
Books
Taking His Chance: John Cage's Diary
One of the minor ironies of the postwar avant-garde is that an artist so resolutely against personal expression and the myth of the inspired genius should become the focus of a cult of personality.
Film
On 'Amy' and 'Ex Machina'
Asif Kapadia’s documentary Amy reconstructs the late singer, Amy Winehouse, by giving the viewer the full story, Amy’s entire life from girlhood until her death.
Art
Naoto Nakagawa’s Art of Seeing and Being
Aristotelians and logical positivists alike have had a field day speculating about the related phenomena of sight, perception, and truth, but what about the revelations one may glean through the unsinkable, old-fashioned medium of elastic, luminous paint?
Art
Every Picture in the World: William Buchina's Dream Logic
William Buchina’s disquieting, enigmatic, and prodigiously complex paintings are one artist’s answer to the relentless media barrage that defines our visual culture, counteracting its torrent of images with a seemingly inexhaustible barrage of his own.
Art
Inventive Twitter Projects Monitor Air Quality, Calm Chemo Patients, and More
At last month's London Design Festival, six projects considered how Twitter might enable interactions beyond verbal communication.
Art
An Artist Couple Explores the Sexy and Not-So-Sexy Realities of Intimacy
DETROIT — Intimacy is often falsely billed as romantic.