Opinion
What the Cult of Knausgaard Tells Us About Critical Bias
The privilege of writing about oneself — of passing one’s vanity off as profundity — is reserved almost exclusively for male authors.
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News
New York's Museum of Biblical Art Will Close Permanently in June
The Museum of Biblical Art's (MOBIA) trustees announced today that when its current exhibition of Donatello sculptures closes in June, the museum will shut down.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Elton John's glasses stolen from museum, a Basquiat painting disappears in breakup, and a sexy hay bale sculpture offends Aussies.
Art
The Familiar Pull of Alien Objects
Auxiliary Projects, formerly in Bushwick, has relocated to a new space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Opinion
Six Authors Withdraw from PEN Gala in Protest of 'Charlie Hebdo' Honor
Celebrated writers Teju Cole, Rachel Kushner, Taiye Selasi, Peter Carey, Michael Ondaatje, and Francine Prose have withdrawn from this year’s annual PEN American Center gala, citing discomfort with the organization’s plan to honor French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Announcement
Pulitzer Arts Foundation Reopens with Exhibitions of Alexander Calder, Richard Tuttle, and Fred Sandback
On May 1, Pulitzer Arts Foundation celebrates the opening of its newly constructed galleries with solo exhibitions of Alexander Calder, Richard Tuttle, and Fred Sandback, and the debut of the program series Press Play.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6Nzk4NjYsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjoyMzQyNzE
Art
A Ceramicist Captures Nature's Fragility
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island — The environmentalist themes in Jeannie Lynn Hulen's exhibition at GRIN, Gibberish: Sapient Fool's Gold, slowly emerge from the whimsical, child-like installation.
Interview
Follow This Man Out of the New Museum
"I do wonder, when I lead complete strangers around on my walks, and take them to sites that don't dredge up some awful racial history so they have no racial referent — I wonder the degree to which they allow themselves to have racial thoughts."
Art
ArtRx NYC
This week, an experimental sound artist creates work live, a South African photographer opens her largest museum show to date, there's a day to celebrate independent bookstores — and don't forget the opening of the new Whitney Museum!
Opinion
Why Gender Equality in Literature Isn't as Simple as 50/50
For every attempt at exposing sexism, there’s an entitled man with a chip on his shoulder, mumbling to himself in a café in Bushwick that no one appreciates his genius.
Art
The Dada Catalogue Marcel Duchamp Designed to Be Thrown Away
For a 1953 Dada exhibition, Marcel Duchamp designed a one-page catalogue meant to be crumpled up and tossed in the trash.
Art
Inside a Bikini Factory, a Photographer Plays with Fabric
LOS ANGELES — For the past two years, Anthony Lepore has been making photographs in his father’s bikini factory.