Performance
Layered with live performances, multimedia feeds, and casts in which everyone is an actor (including the cameramen and musicians), Doris Mirescu's plays channel the model of the fun house.
In Brief
Apparently the price paid for Picasso's "Women of Algiers" (1955) on Monday is not the most obscene thing about it.
Art
The date and secret location have been set and we’re now ready to reveal this year’s Lost Lectures speakers!
Art
Plants and flowers appeared throughout Frida Kahlo's paintings, and although interpreting her art regularly evokes her biography of illness, injury, pain, and tumultuous love, the first exhibition to examine her work from a botanical perspective opens this week at a garden.
Announcement
The Division of Continuing Education Information Sessions provide you with the chance to spend an evening with some of New York City’s top creative talent
In Brief
Orbs of orange paint suggested the light of the lamps past midnight in Vincent van Gogh's 1888 "Le Café de nuit" (The Night Café) and in a new virtual reality take on his painting of the Café de la Gare in Arles, France, they come to life with radiating colors.
Art
HUDSON, NY — River Crossings, the recently opened show up at the historic Thomas Cole House and Olana, Frederic Edwin Church's architectural ode to Orientalism, over-promises and under-delivers.
Books
Arriving by camel in remote areas of Mongolia or on boat along the coast of Norway, contemporary libraries are often mobile, creative, and community-driven, and are adapting rather than fading with the rise of electronic books and decrease in budgets.
Art
PARIS — The art in Hervé Télémaque’s Centre Pompidou retrospective floats between Port-au-Prince, New York, and Paris.
Art
MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY — To devote a show to an era is to delimit the era in question, carving it off from surrounding epochs and ascribing some measure of thematic or aesthetic continuity to it.
Opinion
The record price paid for Pablo Picasso’s “‘Les femmes d’Alger (Version 'O')" (1955) made us wonder what else could $180M buy?
News
Kanye West received his honorary doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) yesterday. The night before, he gave a talk at the school that began as a question-and-answer session but devolved, quite wonderfully, into a rambling, free-associative lecture.