Opinion
Weekend Words: Tower
A new luxury condominium tower (104 units, $7,000,000-$95,000,000) under construction in Manhattan has just topped off at 1,396 feet — 150 feet taller than the Empire State Building.
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Art
Hands On and Off: The Forest Fringe Festival
The Abrons Arts Center hosted the Forest Fringe Microfestival over the weekend of October 3. Forest Fringe originated at the Edinburgh Festival, a fringe within the Edinburgh Fringe, and has become internationally mobile as an independent entity.
Music
Bland in an Interesting Way
If the War on Drugs’s Lost in the Dream is a brilliant soft-pop masterpiece, a theory I am perfectly willing to entertain, it is brilliant in a way more suited to a platinum bestseller than to a critics’ record.
Opinion
Paul McCarthy's Epic Plug de Noël Goes Flaccid After Mounting Problems
After a rough start for Paul McCarthy's 80-foot tall "Tree," that included a few punches and name-calling by people unhappy with the artist's provocation, the inflatable green sculpture has been, well, unplugged.
Art
Rainy Day Woman: Jane Wilson Re-Visions Reality
Some sixty years ago, when she was a young artist involved in the downtown New York City scene, Jane Wilson stopped trying to be an Abstract Expressionist.
Art
Robert Gober’s Unanswered Questions
The sprawling, high-ceilinged contemporary art gallery on the second floor of the Museum of Modern Art might have been built for Richard Serra, but Robert Gober owns it.
Art
The Way the World Ends: Jude Tallichet’s U-Turn
It’s a full-size Hyundai Accent, circa 2000, collapsed in the middle of the gallery floor. Or rather, the shell of one, bone-white and cracked apart, like a melting iceberg or a flash-frozen relic from the next ice age.
Art
The Revolutionary Postcolonial Imagination of Surrealism
In 1945, Andre Breton traveled to the Haitian capital of Port au Prince to deliver a lecture on “Surrealism and Haiti."
Art
Photographs of Urgent Wilderness
Flush with riveting, enigmatic color and luxuriant depth of field, David Benjamin Sherry's monochrome photographs radiate beauty, urgency, and a certain humanness — as if their sublime scenes of mountains, forests, and rock formations had been blasted and dyed by a human detonation.
Art
Natural History Watercolors by a 19th-Century Convict
In the most hellish penal colony of Tasmania, a convict named William Buelow Gould painted beautiful watercolors of the sea creatures that washed up on the shores.
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Using Artist Statement Generators to Make Art
Danny Olda has commissioned six artists to make work based on texts produced by various artist statement generators.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Amal Clooney advocates for the return of the Parthenon marbles to Greece, a Jasper Johns forger is sentenced to two and a half years in prison, and the city of Detroit settled with a major remaining creditor.