In Brief
Ahead of a meeting of labor ministers from Gulf and Asian states later this week, Human Rights Watch released a call for the reform of laws protecting migrant workers co-signed by 90 human rights organizations and unions worldwide.
Art
LONDON — When you enter the first room of Nina Beier’s solo exhibition at David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF), you encounter "Scheme" (2014), an enigmatic stack of green crates with vegetables scattered on the floor.
In Brief
A French feminist organization has scored a partial victory in its petition to have a sculpture it claims is sexist removed from the exterior of the Mémorial de Caen, a World War II memorial and museum in the Lower Normandy city.
Art
LOS ANGELES — The art world is full of rivalries. Add to this list Echo Park denizens Robin and Noodles.
Comics
I'm never ready.
Art
MEISSEN, Germany — Of his extensive collection of ceramics, Oscar Wilde once remarked: "I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china." What Wilde felt he was increasingly failing to “live up to” was probably the sort of bourgeois respectability that is often symbolized by a set
Art
WALTHAM, Massachusetts — There are two large buoys hanging in the front windows of the landlocked Rose Art Museum, sitting like beacons behind the glass façade. Drawn in by the swollen structures, I climbed the stairs, past Chris Burden’s "Light of Reason," and into Mark Bradford's imaginary waters.
Opinion
This week, the super-rich ruining museums, how an essay saved a Renaissance masterpiece, writing as commodity, stealing from Jasper Johns, social media as self-expression, and more.
Opinion
On Thursday, amNewYork reported that the annual SantaCon charity bar crawl will not be heading for Bushwick this year.
Books
While visiting Philadelphia a number of years ago, the poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum asked me “Is Trevor Winkfield a real person?”
Art
There is something wonderfully incongruous and deeply disquieting about Gladys Nilsson’s art, which is primarily done in the medium of watercolor.
Music
Taylor Swift has become a megaplatinum superstar largely through the construction of an artificial but rather appealing character. To call her the girl next door would downplay the dizzy self-involvement and feisty autonomy that made her a star in the first place.