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.
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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.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: One of the world's smallest artworks smashed, a $40 million lawsuit against the Keith Haring Foundation dismissed, and another major museum bans selfie sticks.
Art
In London, Mounting 50 Shows in 50 Weeks (Again)
LONDON — In 2000 Mark Francis and Jay Jopling curated an experimental exhibition project with a simple formula: one exhibition per week for 50 weeks.
Art
Sum of the Arts
Inspired by the Harper's Index, Sum of the Arts is a periodic tabulation of numbers floating around the art world and beyond.
News
Public Art for a Desert City with No Inhabitants
Does a city with no residents need public art? Absolutely, according to University of New Mexico (UNM) adjunct professor Sherri Brueggemann, who first heard about the Center for Innovation, Testing, and Evaluation (CITE) plan last year.