Art

New York's Armory Week Anti-Fairs: Clio and (Un)Scene

In the midst of Armory Arts Week, the (Un)Scene Art Show and Clio Art Fair both bill themselves as "outsider" art fairs that emphasize passion and personality rather than fashion.

Poetry

“Quirky Things That Happen to Me”: More Notes on Recent Poetry Publications

I never set out to be a critic of poetry, and still refuse the label. Actually writing poems is already thankless enough.

Interview

Artist Exchange: In Conversation with Ben La Rocco

Ben La Rocco’s current exhibition Alien Bird Song opens today at John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY. It is an exhibition of new painting and sculpture, a departure from the artist’s usual practice of showing paintings exclusively.

Art

Forever Young: The Rapturous Art of Edith Schloss

A new exhibition at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery focuses on the life and art of Edith Schloss, the consummate insider/outsider of the New York School.

Art

Mining Lady Liberty's Russian Lineage

Legend has it that the copper for America's most famous sculpture — the Statue of Liberty — was produced at the metallurgical factory of Nizhny Tagil, one of the industrial centers of Russia’s Ural region.

Art

At Volta, Artists Have a Room of Their Own

Volta is unique among Armory Week art fairs in that each gallery booth exhibits a solo project by one artist. The fair is still sizable — 90 galleries in total — but it’s a nice change to devote your time to individual series of works.

Art

How the 2015 ADAA Art Fair Changed My Life

It didn't. I lied. I'm sorry. But I did like these things at the Art Dealers Association of America's (ADAA) art fair.

Art

Art on Paper Joins the Armory Week Fold

Despite Art on Paper's name, the work on view at the first-time Armory Week fair includes as many different materials as at any other fair, with art created on paper and art inspired by paper on view.

Art

The Problematic Elegance of Carl Andre

BEACON, NY — Carl Andre’s 50-year, career-spanning retrospective at Dia:Beacon is coming down this weekend. If you think that Modernism is god, that its spawn, Minimalism, is the lord, and that Andre is her messenger, you’d best catch the show before it’s gone.

Art

The Bewitching Geometry of the Moving Image Art Fair

Moving Image would be Emily Dickinson's favorite art fair.

Art

Traces of Extinct Animals at the Armory Show

The animals have gone missing from booth 844. Framed nature prints crowd the holly walls, but the auks, cougars, wolves, and woodpeckers that were once their subjects have been cut out, leaving blank spaces behind in a sort of artistic animal Rapture.

Art

What ISIS Destroys, Why, and Why We Must Document It

The destruction at the Mosul Museum raises questions about why certain items were destroyed, while others were spared.