Art
Suzan Frecon’s Patience Should Be Rewarded
The turning point for Suzan Frecon happened in 1989, when she saw the exhibition of the Swedish artist and mystic, Hilma af Klint: Secret Pictures at PS1.
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Performance
Bar Exam: Richard Maxwell's 'The Evening'
The signature style of Richard Maxwell — a playwright and director who has received awards and fellowships from practically every major theater foundation, and whose rehearsals were presented as a work of art in the 2012 Whitney Biennial — works well in his latest piece, The Evening.
Art
Julian Kreimer: A Place to Call Home
Julian Kreimer is a “painter’s painter.” No, I take that back. He’s a “photographer’s painter.”
Books
Contemporary Photography's Capitalist Realism
In Caspar David Friedrich's “Frau vor untergehender Sonne” (“Woman before the Rising Sun”), a young woman is depicted facing the rising sun, which turns her almost completely, but not entirely, into a silhouette.
Art
The Swinging Sixties’ Grooviest Art Dealer: In London, Remembering Robert Fraser
LONDON — Looking back at history, one encounters certain individuals who reflect the changing attitudes, social values, or cultural trends of their times, while certain others seem to define and embody them; they’re the ones who become the symbols of the spirit of an age.
Art
The Illustrated Correspondence of Artists
Before people were dropping GIFs into Gmail, letter writers were adding illustrations for that emotional or contextual punch.
Interview
In the Desert, a Vulture Spirit Follows a Trail of Femicide
Alone amid cacti, barbed wire, and phone lines, she is looking for something. The figure raises her rake — which seems like half claw, half witch’s broom — above her head, then returns to it to the sand.
Art
Images of War Outside the Frame
Seeking revelation in the ways that war is curtailed, hidden, biased, and unfinished, Frames of War, a rigorous group show at the small but dauntlessly ambitious Bushwick nonprofit Momenta Art, approaches state violence through the edges of recognition.
Art
On Hearing a White Man Co-opt the Body of Michael Brown
On a Friday evening, my partner and I wander into an auditorium at Brown University and find ourselves five minutes into what is apparently Kenneth Goldsmith’s poem “The Body of Michael Brown.”
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: The 25th anniversary of the Gardner Museum heist, Madonna dishes on Basquiat, and a pop-up store offers ephemeral art.
Art
Reconstructing Managua Before the 1972 Earthquake
MANAGUA — Most people will advise you, on touching down in Managua, to rent a car and drive as fast out of the Nicaraguan capital as you can.
Art
Sum of the Arts
Display cases for the 300 artifacts in Vodou: Sacred Powers of Haiti at the Field Museum in Chicago = 0 (to respect the belief that Vodou objects should not be encased)