Art
Mike Kelley's Superman Complex
Every hero has an origin story.
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Comics
Artists and Their Big Secret
It takes a while to figure out.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, did Duchamp appropriate a woman's artwork, Naomi Wolf compares Kathryn Bigelow to Leni Riefenstahl, how photojournalism is changing, Guerrilla Girls critical of Broad collection, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Science
On Wednesday, Intel announced that it was “dropping its longtime support" of the Science Talent Search, "the most prestigious science and mathematics competition for American high school students,” according to the New York Times.
Books
What Was He Supposed to Do, Submit to a Shivering World? The Collected Poems of Michael Gizzi
It would be impossible for me to write impartially about Michael Gizzi’s newly published Collected Poems. I became acquainted with Michael and his poetry when I was twenty.
Art
Paradise Regained, If Only for the Night
I had not seen Kyle Staver’s frieze-like clay sculptures before encountering two of them in Kyle Staver: Tall Tales, her current show at both Lower East Side spaces of Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects.
Interview
Beer with a Painter, LA Edition: Jonas Wood
“Go ahead; you can write whatever you want about me,” Jonas Wood says. “Everyone knows I’m a stoner,” he adds, since beer has been mostly displaced by California’s drug of choice during my Los Angeles series of interviews.
Art
Through a Lens, Inquisitively: Modern Photo Visions, of and from Japan
Most photographs of real-life events tend to be documentary by nature, but the kind of photographic image-making that makes a point of approaching its subjects with an “objective” viewpoint and a for-posterity sense of purpose — can such photos ever convey a truly neutral position vis-à-vis their su
Art
Wreckage upon Wreckage: Elana Herzog’s 'Angel of History'
SHIFT; The Angel of History, an installation by Elana Herzog at Studio 10 in Bushwick, is a witheringly beautiful meditation on the murderous elegance of fate.
Art
A Documentary Takes a Walk Through Hélio Oiticica's Past
“My life has transformed itself into a montage of simultaneous things,” Hélio Oiticica wrote in a letter in 1971.
News
A Petition to Stop "Irresponsible" Restoration of Chartres Cathedral
A new petition against the cathedral's restoration claims work done over the past six years has irreversibly damaged the 800-year-old building and erased centuries of the history that makes it so special.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: Anish Kapoor's Versailles sculpture was vandalized for a third time, a soccer-themed issue of THE THING Quarterly tackles art critic Ken Johnson, and a new project space opened at a secret location in NYC.