Art
Last week, Atlantic Media's business publication, Quartz, ran a 2200-word takedown of the art market by Allison Schrager. The story was accompanied by a helpful flowchart illustrating how deeply corrupt the art market is, and carries all the familiar signs of the minimally self-aware bloviation char
Art
From a standpoint of cohesion, the architecture of the 20th century was a mess. Brutalist monoliths were constructed alongside shimmering aluminum waves, while some architects clung to scraps of classicism like life preservers in a swelling sea of modernism. However, it was this mishmash of styles a
Announcement
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Opinion
We turn our gazes toward men and masculinity, and suddenly everyone feels safe again. Consider The New Inquiry's Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child, a response to the ongoing conversations around Preliminary Materials for Theory of the Young-Girl, which uses the body of the young-gir
Books
In Nancy Grossman: Tough Life Diary (Prestel, 2012), performer Elizabeth Streb relays an anecdote about artist Nancy Grossman startling her by wearing a monkey fur jacket. It's one of those images that has an unsettling, visceral nature to it, like striding through life in a skin ripped from another
Art
The writer Jorge Luis Borges once referred to his friend the artist Xul Solar as “one of the most singular events of our era.” Those in New York have the opportunity to see an important selection of works by the two friends in an exhibition at the Americas Society. Curated by Gabriela Rangel, the sh
Art
It's officially insufferably hot in New York. Whether the weather has you thinking about the environment, feeling gloomy, or making you want to crawl out of your skin, the doctor's got activities for you.
News
In a message sent at 4:07 pm to the Cooper Union community, Jamshed Bharucha announced today an agreement with the activist group Free Cooper Union, which had ended its occupation and vacated his office on Friday. The email, which was preceded a few minutes earlier by a campuswide message containing
Opinion
Susan Vreeland’s novel The Passion of Artemisia, a work of historical fiction, inspired this list of facts about one of the greatest painters of the Baroque era.
Art
CHICAGO — Selfies are part of our voluntary self-exposure in an attempt to take back the images of ourselves, but in the process we also give ourselves away. In the world of online selfies, faces are the focus; bodies tend to appear as afterthoughts. We see a collection of eyes, lips, mouths, noses,
News
The Rijksmuseum has acquired one of the earliest depictions of America — a painting by Jan Mostaert from circa 1535 titled "Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America."
Art
The relationship between the Israeli populace and the country's military is vastly different than the equivalent here in the US. That may sound like an obvious statement, but it's one that kept coming to mind when I read Hyperallergic staff writer Alicia Eler's post last week about the Insta-aesthet