Art
Bedlam's New Museum Looks Beyond Madness
The name Bedlam is so evocative of chaos and madness, the real history of one of the world's oldest institutions for the treatment of mental illness often gets detached from its public presence.
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Art
"BitchCoin" Currency Challenges the Way We Buy Art
A new project from Sarah Meyohas and the Brooklyn-based Where gallery explores the future of art in a world where both art and the market are increasingly immaterial.
Art
Explosive Watercolors and Collages, Subtly Contained
Looking at Marcia Kure’s watercolors and collages, the word that comes to mind is “torque.”
Interview
Talking Pictures with a Film Curator of 45 Years
Charles Silver has worked at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) since 1970, first in the film studies center and then (and still) as a curator in the department of film.
Comics
Not a Morning Artist
We live in a society that celebrates hard work.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Triennial opinions, a sliding glass house, theory of the dick pic, Facebook reveals how its users voted on #TheDress, LACMA collects Latin American colonial art, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Paper
A new exhibition at the Grolier Club in Manhattan celebrates 500 years of the paperback book with a tribute to the Venetian printer Aldus Manutius (1455–1515), who was the first to create books in a portable format.
Poetry
Dread States: Samuel Beckett's Poems
Confronting the new volume of The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett of nearly 500 pages in length, one might be tempted to proclaim — as many have of Beckett’s mentor, James Joyce — that his best poetry appeared in his fiction and, in Beckett’s case alone, in his dramatic works.
Poetry
This Is Not a Book Review of 'Model City' by Donna Stonecipher
I want to begin by stating this is not a review of a Model City, a book of poems that I recently read. The author is Donna Stonecipher, an American poet and translator who has lived in Berlin for some years.
Music
Physical Spiky Funk
Put on the new D’Angelo album and you’ll discover fifty-six minutes of music completely hidden behind a veil of static.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Gregory Botts
I have known Gregory Botts for about twenty years. Early on, I remember being captivated by the guerilla action he and his wife, fellow painter Jenny Hankwitz, took in the early 1990s: planting sunflowers in the meridian of Houston Street in SoHo.
Art
Quickly Aging Here: The 2015 Triennial
After six years and three installments, is the New Museum’s Triennial entering middle age? An odd question for an exhibition devoted to “early-career artists,” as the museum’s press release describes them.