Opinion
Required Reading
This week, tax breaks for billionaire art collectors, architecture of art fairs, assholes who think they're geniuses, the problem with #AllLivesMatter, a slave who freed herself, literary California, and more.
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Opinion
Weekend Words: Separation
This week, amNewYork reported on a recent study from the University of Missouri investigating smartphone separation anxiety.
Books
Language as Maternal
George Oppen published his first book, Discrete Series, in 1934; his second, The Materials, emerged 28 years later, in 1962. But even Oppen and Bunting were raring to go in comparison to Wong May, whose third collection of poems, Superstitions, came out in 1978.
Art
John Keats and Martin Puryear, and the Latter’s Renewal of “Negative Capability”
Recently, and rather unexpectedly, the term “negative capability,” which was coined by the poet John Keats, came to mind. Was this an outlandish association to make while looking at Martin Puryear’s debut exhibition at Matthew Marks?
Art
Capturing the Quotidian in a Fine Mesh of Crosshatching: Paintings and Drawings by Karl Stevens
Karl Stevens’ whisper-soft graphite drawings and smooth-as-ice oil paintings evoke comparison to Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres yet portray neither odalisques nor aristocrats. Best known as a graphic novelist (Guilty; Whatever), Stevens’ canvases and sketches, like his comic strips and watercolors, r
Books
Topless but Far From Helpless: Charlotte Moorman’s Avant-Garde Life
A new biography offers a revealing portrait of the pioneering performance artist and ardent member of the late 20th century’s artistic avant-garde.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Sarah McEneaney
I visited Sarah McEneaney at her home in the Callowhill / Trestletown / Chinatown North neighborhood of Philadelphia.
Interview
With a Bridge for a Screen, Artists Bring a Rainbow to Brooklyn
Most days the underside of the Smith-9th Street subway bridge over the Gowanus Canal is a tangle of ungainly gray beams, but this week it has been aglow in bold colors every night.
Performance
In Rock Opera, Courtney Love Attains Nirvana
Courtney Love's rock opera duet with Todd Almond packed a small black box at the Here Art Center.
Opinion
Kitsch Alert: Slap Your Face (or Your Partner's, Pet's) on an Old Master
Everyone's favorite Hallmark holiday is coming up in one month, which means if you haven't bought a present for your significant other yet, you're running out of time. Luckily, we received the best gift idea we've ever seen in our inbox this morning: Nobilified.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: Nestlé filed a trademark infringement claim against artist Anthony Antonellis, the much beloved Showpaper ceases publication, and a Zaha Hadid building in Vienna is shedding its exterior.
Interview
Instagram Photos Reappear on the Streets Where They Were Taken
What if instead of only showing up online, your Instagram photos of sunsets, street art, photogenic cityscapes, or alluring strangers on subway platforms were posted back into New York City's public spaces?