Art
Josiah McElheny Reenacted
When first I heard that the sculptor Josiah McElheny had devised a series of paintings for his current show at Andrea Rosen Gallery, I tried to imagine what they would look like.
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Performance
Queer Bodies, Obedience, and Aging in Crossing the Line Festival
The ninth edition of the French Institute Alliance Française’s Crossing the Line festival concluded on October 4 after presenting over three weeks of interdisciplinary performances at various venues across New York City.
Art
A Poetics of Appropriation: On Sharon Core
Sharon Core does not simply make photographs of still lifes that exactly re-create paintings, she creates the still lifes — literally.
Art
Jean Dubuffet and Art Brut in the US: A Historical Moment Re-examined
What if canonical art history had been written not by academics but by art’s makers themselves? Who would have been included in such a history, and who would have been left out?
Art
Coming Back to Kiefer
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Nearly eight years ago I wrote a review leading off with the question, “What is it about Anselm Kiefer’s art that inhibits unfettered admiration?”
News
Workers Fighting to Unionize Claim B&H Photo Threatened "Termination en Masse"
Just four days after B&H Photo Video employees announced their intention to form a union, describing hazardous working conditions and discriminatory practices at the photo and video retailer's two Brooklyn warehouses, company representatives allegedly threatened them "with termination en masse."
Comics
A Performance in Chicago Reimagines Caesar's Bridge
I think of the stage as a bridge upon which our imagination can be embodied.
Art
Finding What's Lost in a Video Game Inspired by Haruki Murakami
If you've ever read Japanese author Haruki Murakami's magical realist fiction — filled with characters like a six-foot-tall "superfrog," a human data processor named Calcutec, and a cat killer who makes flutes out of cats' souls — and wished someone would turn his bizarre world into a video game, yo
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Lawrence Weiner installed a series of works in an 18th-century British palace, a museum researcher defended his decision to kill a rare bird for scientific study, and Playboy decided to cease publishing images of nude women.
Art
An Abandoned House in Detroit Blooms with Aromatic Plants
DETROIT — Two common themes in the Detroit lexicon: blighted houses, and nature persisting despite architectural ruin. Lisa Waud’s visually striking Flower House plays into both motifs.
Art
The Measured Precariousness of Sarah Sze
It’s a common promise made in many press releases and artist statements: rather than delivering an artwork with hermetic, built-in meaning and context, the art, by being loose in some way, will provide its viewer with materials and tools with which to construct meaning.
Art
Public Art in Philadelphia Tells the Stories of the Undocumented
Throughout Philadelphia, for the rest of the month, one may now stumble upon and listen to the stories of undocumented families whose lives were affected by deportations.