Art
Reconstructing the Legacy of Surrealism
A Surrealism of hokey séances and dripping clocks has long superseded the movement's political and conceptual radicality in the contemporary imagination.
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Art
Crude Beauty and Wordsworthian Grandeur
The artist Stanley Lewis draws and paints the landscapes closest to him, places where he works, teaches, and travels like nearby lakes and roadsides in Chautauqua, New York, or his backyard and studio window views in Leeds, Massachusetts.
Art
Indicting Higher Education in the Arts and Beyond
There’s one very clear take-away from the latest report released by the collective BFAMFAPhD: people who graduate with arts degrees regularly end up with a lot of debt and incredibly low prospects for earning a living as artists.
Community
A View from the Easel
Artist studios in Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and Mexico.
In Brief
Another Vandal Hits Jeff Koons Retrospective
Last night, a graffiti writer identified by the New York Times as Christopher Johnson, 33, of Manhattan, vandalized a fourth floor wall of the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, an art project asks people to give away their data for a cookie, the first web brower turns 20, a child befriends Siri, slowing down in museums, the smell of old books, tea propaganda, and more.
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.
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.