Art
“Josh Smith: Sculpture” is how the sign reads. Yet behind it is a conservatively installed exhibition of drawings, conventionally framed and tastefully spaced on Luhring Augustine’s neutral white walls.
Art
The clash of cheery colors with destructive scenes gives this artist's images a subversive, dissonant power.
Art
Number of surviving copies of the misprinted 1631 "Sinners' Bible" that demanded "Thou shalt commit adultery" = 10
Opinion
Collectors choose to buy art based on their interest in the work itself, not whether it matches the color of their living room drapes, right?
Art
Known as shunga ("spring pictures"), these highly erotic sexual scenes comprise a genre of their own, and an exhibition devoted entirely to them has opened for the first time in their country of origin.
Art
Sara Shaoul’s Strange Labor looks to expand our understanding of the self in the world by examining the interconnectedness of female body patterns and sociopolitical cycles.
Art
Among the 18 million specimens in the oldest natural history museum in the United States are contributions from missionaries and ministers who practiced science alongside their faith.
Art
In 1968, Seth Siegelaub and John Wendler published the first edition of the so-called "Xerox Book." The untitled publication, which was conceived as an exhibition in itself — and is currently the subject of a show at Paula Cooper Gallery — is now considered a seminal artist book.
Interview
Matthew Morrocco arrived at the café fashionably late, wearing an army jacket and floral print flats. Before sitting down he ordered his coffee.
News
The World Monuments Fund has announced 50 sites around the globe that are in danger of disappearing due to development, war, neglect, natural disaster, or deliberate destruction.
News
SAN FRANCISCO — PETA and animal lovers can relax: the meat within the metal isn't real. The cans are (of course) part of an art installation.
Art
LONDON — American director Abel Ferrara’s newest film documents the final 24 hours of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s life in an intelligent way, without rhetoric or prudery.