Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Gramsci hates New Year's, art market bubble, advice from art dealers, remembering Ellsworth Kelly, and more.
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Art
The Prince of New York City
It is easy to forget just how really good a painter Alex Katz can be. This is because he makes everything look so easy and natural.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Chocolate
Last week, a food blogger called into question a famous Brooklyn chocolate maker's "bean-to-bar" reputation.
Art
Liubov Popova, an Homage
Sometime in the late 1970s, Miriam Schapiro and Elaine Lustig Cohen gathered a group of feminist artists and writers around my dining room table with a proposal: “Let’s form a consortium to buy the work of the Russian Constructivist women.”
Art
Everything Is Permitted: Artist-Run Spaces of Mexico City in the 1990s
PHILADELPHIA — In the early 1990s, Mexican artists Daniel Guzmán and Luis Felipe Ortega recreated and recorded on video a selection of works by Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, and Paul McCarthy. They relied only on written transcriptions.
Art
Broken Utopia: Abstract Painting in Italy
Nobody believes in the simple narrative arc of Modern Art anymore; even so, Painting in Italy 1910s–1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art at Sperone Westwater is an instructive glimpse into the fullness and complexity lying beneath thumbnail histories of the avant-garde.
Film
Circus as an Act of Survival in the Arctic and Guinea
The hamlet of Igloolik in far northern Canada and the city of Conakry in West Africa's Guinea are plagued by distinct issues, one a troubling suicide rate, the other widespread poverty.
Film
Circus as an Act of Survival in the Arctic and Guinea
The hamlet of Igloolik in far northern Canada and the city of Conakry in West Africa's Guinea are plagued by distinct issues, one a troubling suicide rate, the other widespread poverty.
Books
A Photographer Captures the Sweet Strangeness of His Family’s Everyday Life
Like a breath of fresh air, Dutch photographer Maurice van Es’s now will not be with us forever provides a welcome alternative to the haze of apathy, distrust, and sarcasm that permeate contemporary media and visual culture.
Books
A Photographer Captures the Sweet Strangeness of His Family’s Everyday Life
Like a breath of fresh air, Dutch photographer Maurice van Es’s now will not be with us forever provides a welcome alternative to the haze of apathy, distrust, and sarcasm that permeate contemporary media and visual culture.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: Egyptian authorities raided a nonprofit gallery in Cairo, Ai Weiwei visited migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos, and preservationists criticized the Smithsonian for placing bright new signs on the façade of one of its historical buildings.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: Egyptian authorities raided a nonprofit gallery in Cairo, Ai Weiwei visited migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos, and preservationists criticized the Smithsonian for placing bright new signs on the façade of one of its historical buildings.