Opinion
After fierce opposition from scholars, writers, critics and the public, the New York Public Library announced this week that it has reversed its plan, developed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Norman Foster (aka Lord Foster of Thames Bank), to revamp its landmark Beaux-Arts building on Fifth Ave
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As a poet interested in the social material of writing, I found a deep connection with the early paintings of Shusaku Arakawa and with Arakawa and Madeline’s Gins paradigmatic The Mechanism of Meaning (1971).
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As much as Howardena Pindell’s unstretched paintings and drawings share something with the Pattern and Decoration movement, or with monochromatic abstraction, color field painting, all-over painting, fiber art, the counting work of Roman Opalka, and the spot paintings of Larry Poons, what elevates t
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After a rather dull Frieze New York art fair, it was refreshing to see that NADA New York continues to improve while refraining from charging its visitors with a hefty entrance fee.
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Al Carbee was an old man who liked dolls.
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I’m in a surgical center in Scottsdale, Arizona, being treated as if I were an esteemed guest at a Marriot. Better. A series of very nice people are being serially very nice to me, asking me questions, checking-in with how I feel, giving appropriate boosts.
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“The intestine is a hole that we can never fill,” Anna Maria Maiolino tells the curator Helena Tatay in a wide-ranging interview published on the Documenta 13 website, “just as we can never fulfill desire.”
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Artists have transformed a vacant townhouse in Spanish Harlem for New York's 2014 Frieze weekend. The temporary exhibition, Hot House, spans three different levels loosely corresponding to the three parts of Dante's Divine Comedy (1308–21): the basement is the Inferno, the middle section of the hous
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One of the season's most anticipated art events will finally open to the public tomorrow. Kara Walker's "A Subtlety," aka the "Marvelous Sugar Baby," is the renowned artist's first public artwork.
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The Paris-based Cutlog art fair has returned to the Lower East Side for another year, with 50 galleries setting up inside the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center. Opened on Wednesday, the internationally focused art offerings sprawl through two floors of the old schoolhouse, weaving
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Everything looks different from the water — even an art fair. Sitting in Marie Lorenz's rowboat yesterday evening, gliding along the edge of Randall's Island, the curving white tent that houses Frieze New York seemed distant and innocuous.
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The first thing you see when you enter Collective design fair at the Moynihan Station Skylight space is a mini-exhibition of work by Hella Jongerius, organized by Murray Moss and Franklin Getchell of design think tank Moss Bureau. The presentation includes a group of stuffed “Quilted Vases” (2006) b