Opinion
Weekend Words: Stumble
Last week an unfortunate 12-year-old boy stumbled into a 17th-century Baroque painting by Neapolitan artist Paolo Porpora, and this week Jeb! Bush continues to stumble in the wake of Death Star Trump.
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Books
Obsession, Exploded: The Stories of Clarice Lispector
“How do I know?” asks a character standing in for author Clarice Lispector in “Before the Rio–Niterói Bridge,” included in New Directions’ recent release of The Complete Stories. “I know the same way you do by imaginative guessing. I know, period.”
Art
Will Some Bright Morning Ever Arrive?
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — In 1963, while living in Los Angeles, Melvin Edwards welded “Some Bright Morning” out of different pieces of steel scrap metal, including a heavy chain and a dagger-like fragment extending from a circular, collar-like form.
Art
Justine, a Prophet: Blindness and Vision in Lars von Trier’s 'Melancholia'
The opening shot of Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (2011) is a close-up of Justine (played by Kirsten Dunst) her eyes shut, her wet, white-blonde hair wild, a feral halo around her face. And then she slowly opens her eyes.
Art
In and Out of Frame: Lorraine O’Grady’s “Art Is…”
Like a Choose Your Own Adventure story or a game of Mad Libs, the elliptical title of Lorraine O’Grady’s 1983 performance piece, “Art Is…,” creates space, playful and inviting, for structured audience participation.
Art
The Anti-Expressionist: Jack Tworkov’s Paradigm Shift
One of the many striking works in the exhibition Jack Tworkov: Mark and Grid is a large abstraction from 1977 called “Knight Series #8 (Q3-77 #2).” Resembling a Synthetic Cubist floor plan, it is in fact an experiment in gaming that looks back to the anti-art of Marcel Duchamp and forward to the rul
Opinion
Minnesota Fair Censors Bill Cosby Portrait Made from Rapeseeds
Every year, the Minnesota State Fair offers a prized blue ribbon to the artist who can make the coolest picture from seeds of commonly grown crops.
Community
A View from the Easel
Artist studios in Florida, Missouri, New York, Texas, and Australia.
In Brief
Arkansas Tells Artist to Stop Putting Toilets in Her Yard
Nearly 100 years after Marcel Duchamp made "Fountain," bathroom plumbing fixtures are still way too edgy for Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Art
Revisiting a 1992 Sign Project that Acknowledged NYC's Lost Histories
In 1992, artist collective REPOhistory installed 39 aluminum signs in Lower Manhattan that highlighted the overlooked history of New York City.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: "Algie" the inflatable Pink Floyd pig was withdrawn from auction, only one student enrolled in USC's Roski School of Art and Design MFA program, and Sotheby's announced the sale of A. Alfred Taubman's art collection.
Art
Carnegie Museum of Art Makes its Provenance Accessible and Interactive
Label text rarely describes the life of a painting before it arrived at a museum, yet there's a whole narrative of ownership in a painting's journey from an artist's studio to a static place on the wall.