Opinion

Weekend Words: Half

This week, Hyperallergic’s Laura C. Mallonee reported that the Friedenstein Foundation in Gotha, Germany, is seeking the upper half of the 16th-century painting “Bowl With the Head of John the Baptist” by Lucas Cranach, which was sawn in two by an art dealer in 1936.

Poetry

Sweet Soul Music: Fred Moten’s "The Little Edges"

The title of Fred Moten’s latest collection, The Little Edges, pinpoints the border country where his poetry unfolds.

Art

Rosalyn Drexler’s Noir Paintings

I wonder if the reason Rosalyn Drexler isn’t better known is because she is so good at so many different things. We recognize such mastery in men, but rarely in women.

Art

How We Got Here: Portrait of the Artist as a Queer Feminist

As long as I can remember, I’ve organized and been involved in artist groups and collectives.

Art

Words Fall Away: 'Judith Scott — Bound and Unbound'

The first time I saw Judith Scott’s work was in Rosemarie Trockel’s retrospective, A Cosmos, at the New Museum.

Art

Taking the Minimal Out of Minimalism: Robin Peck’s Abstract Skulls

There are nine lumps of plaster and Hydrocal — covered in yellowing shellac and polished wax — on display at CANADA on the Lower East Side, their domed tops roughly the size and shape of a human skull (hence the title of the exhibition, Crania).

Interview

Images of War, Re-Photographed and Transformed

Re-photographing (or re-purposing) the news media began for me as a healing ritual, a kind of laying-on-of-hands, to purge my despair over news events around the world.

Art

Over 500 Joseph Beuys Multiples Go on Rare View in NYC

From the 1960s until his death in 1986, German artist Joseph Beuys produced some 557 multiples — small-scale portable and affordable pieces that captured an element of his practice.

Opinion

What to Make of the Village Voice's Offensive Kehinde Wiley Review?

If you're looking for a very generous review of the Kehinde Wiley exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, read Roberta Smith. If you're looking for one that's startlingly homophobic and racist, read Jessica Dawson.

Performance

One City, Two Experimental Plays, a Whole Lot of Creative Women

Last week was an outstanding one for experimental theater in Detroit.

News

A Folk Art Desk Mourns the US Civil War's Bloodiest Day

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, announced this week the acquisition of a curious memorial from the US Civil War that stands eight feet tall and is embedded with bone.

Opinion

Are Full-Time Authors and Artists Really So Lonely?

Creative types aren't such an embattled minority as the battery of pessimistic articles predicting the end of painting or the novel makes them out to be.