Art
Last month's Greenpoint Gallery Night revealed a trend among contemporary artists: they're reveling in ways to make the sky look weird. (Isn't all contemporary art about weird these days?) Seriously, there were no kitschy sunsets or pretty blue skies or brooding storms to be found. No, what feels ri
News
This weekend's Banksys touched down in three boroughs. They included some of his trademark black-and-white stencils and a surprise pop-up shop by Central Park, while the story of the Red Hook work continues.
News
For the latest in their inventive visual mockery of Cooper Union president and unalloyed economic realist Jamshed Bharucha, the student activists of Free Cooper Union satirically reconfigured a Banksy work that popped up near the school's campus over the weekend.
Art
CHICAGO — Donna Huanca is from the South Side of Chicago, and she hasn't been back here since she was 15, an adolescent girl.
Art
Doing research has always been a difficult endeavor for independent curators and arts historians. Outside the aegis of an academic institution, access to scholarly articles has traditionally been prohibitively expensive.
Comics
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Art
It’s not clear who scooped whom, but there are two gallery shows now on view in New York that examine the relationship between art and the newspaper.
Opinion
This week, Banksy speaks, a Russian artist fools London dealers, art historians are scared to give opinions, street artists in Palestine, the Met's "primitive" heritage, a forgotten Lynda Benglis sculpture, and more.
Opinion
On October 5th, the Carnegie International — the biennial that's not a biennial but arrives every three to five years — opened in Pittsburgh after waiting the limit, five years after its last version in 2008.
Books
Lytle Shaw’s Fieldworks is a big and ambitious study that is a welcome addition to the dense, unruly, and relatively unmapped field called “postwar poetics.”
Art
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — I first met Rick Beerhorst in 1986, when he was a graduate student in the MFA program at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. One of his teachers was Peter Bodnar, whose small, quirky, symbolic abstractions with a spiritual undercurrent — they share something with J
Art
Do you pick a destination in order to have a reason to take a walk, or do you take a walk in order to get to a place you have in mind? Sometimes one, sometimes the other. Are the words a poet uses essentially a means to convey a thought or feeling he or she has in mind, or is the poem’s subject chos