Art
Xingzi Gu’s Dreamlike Portraits of Youth
The tension between moments of quiet joy and inevitable calamity in Gu's ethereal portraits is riveting.
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Art
It’s Time for Chryssa’s Neon Art to Shine
Chryssa, it turns out, did everything that the famous Pop and New Media artists did, simultaneously or, in some instances, first.
Art
Hugh Hayden Should Cut the Crap
The artist’s latest show belongs in the toilet — and that’s exactly where he put it.
News
Stunning Pale-Blue Frescoes Found in Pompeii
The Ancient Roman room, thought to have been used as a shrine for ritual activities, is estimated to date back approximately 2,000 years.
Art
What’s Up With Those Park Avenue Sculptures of Men Missing Body Parts?
Bruno Catalano’s bronze figures are a devastatingly hyper-literal and heavy-handed interpretation of loss.
News
Most NY Artists Are Financially Unstable, Survey Finds
More than half of respondents said they earned under $25,000 a year.
Art
A Close Look at Caravaggio’s Last Painting
Just two paintings are in The Last Caravaggio, both in perplexed mourning over their subject matter, and both emerging from dark places.
Art
Healing Japanese Art for the End Times
A show of Japanese art at The Met suggests that things might not work out for us in our own end times, but it’s worth trying.
Art
Unearthing the Land’s Buried Stories at the Venice Biennale
Artists at the Irish, Hãhãwpuá, Portuguese, and Dutch pavilions are exploring notions of land and rematriation — often by bringing soil itself into the gallery space.
Opinion
How Can a Small Bohemian Town Help Artists Stay Afloat?
Historic arts enclaves like Provincetown, Key West, and Taos, and American culture at large, lose when they fail to invest in artists and writers.
Art
Of Monkeys and Men
Michaël Borremans’s paintings seem to display a pitiless, if not forbidding, irony, almost studiedly cruel in their level of dispassion.
Film
The Women and Children of the Second Artsakh War
Two films make US viewers reckon with the extent to which American ignorance — and indifference — to the conflict is a side effect of “winning” the Cold War.