Opinion
Weekend Words: Self
Not to be outdone by OxfordDictionaries.com, which, as reported by Hyperallergic's Alicia Eler, has selected "selfie" as its new Word of the Year, Weekend Words respectfully centers on the self.
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Poetry
Reading List
Vito Acconci is an underrated poet. Gilbert Adair is well worth reading. Rachel Adams is well worth reading. Etel Adnan is an underrated poet.
Art
Necessary Ambiguity: Sangram Majumdar’s Recent Work
In a media-riddled world where images rapidly circulate, moving from momentary commodity (“gone viral”) to forgotten waste, Sangram Majumdar is interested in “what stays.”
Music
Fagen's Critical Catalogue (November 2013, Part 2)
In part 2 of this month, reviews of Arcade Fire, Miley Cyrus, Omar Souleyman, and Chance the Rapper.
Art
Action at an Impasse: Esteban Vicente and the Art of Collage
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina — Esteban Vicente was a lyrical abstractionist whose work over eight decades redefines that category. A current exhibition at the Asheville Art Museum, Esteban Vicente: The Art of Interruption, takes its title from Elaine de Kooning's insight into her longtime friend's tech
Art
For the Love of Paint: Leon Kossoff Digs Deep
Leon Kossoff’s paintings can be counted among the vanishing breed of artworks whose comprehension is entirely dependent upon being in its physical presence.
Art
The Many Faces of Eleanor Antin
Let me introduce you to a few of the many selves of Eleanor Antin, as they are represented in the show Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antin’s “Selves,” currently on view at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University.
Opinion
Kanye Compares Himself to Michelangelo, Marina, Thinks He's More Relevant than Obama
Kanye West has given a doozy of an interview on NYC’s Power 105 radio station that really makes you wonder how much bigger his ego could possibly be and if he believes his pseudo-revolutionary babble about corporations and creativity. When someone talks about being marginalized for only designing two
Opinion
The 'Grandmother' of Performance on the Internet
CHICAGO — “You are the future, and you get love by video,” chants artist Jillian Mayer in "I Am Your Grandma," a simple, catchy, one-minute video in which the artist ponders the idea that she will be a grandmother and her grandkids will find this video on YouTube.
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Art Movements
A Strozzi goes to LACMA, photojournalist sues AFP and Getty and wins $1.2M, Haring Foundation donates to New Museum, Smithsonian gets $1.8M from Oman, and more.
Art
Peter Doig's Restless City
I have always thought it unfair that Peter Doig is chiefly known for the headlines associated with the sale of his “White Canoe” painting by Charles Saatchi at auction in 2007 for £5.7 million ($9.31M). This made him Europe’s most expensive living painter and the acknowledgement was accompanied by a
Art
Painting Beyond Belief: Amy Sillman, Peter Doig, and Jordan Kantor Discuss Chagall
Last Sunday night, on the occasion of the exhibit Chagall: Love, War, and Exile on view at the Jewish Museum, Jordan Kantor a painter and professor at California College of the Arts, hosted an intimate panel looking back at painting since the death of Chagall to the present.