Comics
Some Artist Dos and Don'ts
Some thoughts on what you probably should and should not do.
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Art
Between Figuration and Abstraction with Amy Sillman
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, New York — Walking into the Hessel Art Museum at Bard College, an unremarkable contemporary building on a quiet Hudson Valley college campus in Upstate New York, I was unprepared for the dynamite lurking within.
Art
Why Eternity Is so Precarious
BEIRUT — Shortly after the opening of their most recent exhibition, I Must First Apologize in Nice, Lebanese artists and filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige returned home to Beirut to deliver their “An Additional Continent” lecture at Ashkal Alwan, the Lebanese Association for Plastic Ar
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, auction houses stalking new buyers, Frick Museum controversies, objections to Norman Rockwell's new biography, the impact of deskilling on arts education, should musicians play Tel Aviv, and more?
Opinion
Weekend Words: Guide
A grim chapter of history came to a close on Monday with the death of the last surviving crew member of the Enola Gay, a little more than a week before the 69th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
Books
Bruce Kurland’s Unorthodoxy, or 'Arrangement with Duck’s Skull, Romaine Lettuce, and Migratory Bird Stamp'
Ever since viewing what turned out to be the final solo show of Bruce Kurland (1938-2013), at the Victoria Munroe Gallery in New York City in 1990, I have been haunted by his intimate oil paintings.
Poetry
What Happens After Eric Baus’s Pharmacy Fills with Sand?
The Tranquilized Tongue (City Lights Books, 2014), Eric Baus’s fourth book, is his best yet. It consists of more than sixty compact prose poems, some of which are only one sentence long, and with none as long as the first one, “The Illuminated Egg,” a single block of ten sentences.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Catherine Murphy
When I arrived at Catherine Murphy’s home in Poughkeepsie, New York, I was led down a long outdoor path to her studio. Murphy was working on a painting of a pie crust; she asked her assistant to put the dough on ice while she spoke with me.
Poetry
Glow-in-the-Dark Jigsaw Pieces
I have a habit, when reading a good book of poetry, of looking for the places where the poet seems to be reflecting on his or her own sense of what poetry is. Arthur Sze, one of my favorite poets, writes, “If I sprinkle iron filings onto a sheet / / of paper, I make visible the magnetic lines / of t
Art
The Familiar, the Boisterous, the Unexpected, and the Absurd
It seems a little unfair to encumber an exhibition with a title like OK Great REALLY this is ALSO RIDICULOUS. With its overtones of exasperation and disparagement, the phrase sends confusing signals about what’s in store and how seriously to take it. But the show hooks you in an instant and holds yo
In Brief
A Glimpse of Edward and Jo Hopper in Their Studios
This wonderful two-minute video will take you inside Edward and Jo Hopper's New York City studio in 1965.
News
Larry Rivers Foundation Sues Former Chelsea Hotel Owner
The Larry Rivers Foundation is suing developer Joseph Chetrit, the former owner of the Chelsea Hotel, over a missing painting that once hung in the hotel's lobby and that the foundation has been trying to recover for three years.