Art
Art Rx
By the calendar, you've still got a few weeks left of summer, but in the art world fall has arrived, which means tons of openings and events.
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Opinion
Man Finds Thing and It Is All Worthwhile
The thing found by the man sat for many years piled amid the musty crenellations of his attic.
Art
The Beauty of a Sculpted Experience at Storm King
The Hudson Valley has a special kind of light and soaring nature, with its elevations and valleys illuminated with sun, starlight, and storm. At the Storm King Art Center with its installations of giant metal sculptures that seem alien on the meadows, or land art that warps the earth, the most inter
Art
A Rainbow Over the Williamsburg Bridge
Last week, Minneapolis-based street artist HOTTEA, who is well-known for stringy street art that normally weaves its away around chain-link fences, transformed the pedestrian tunnel at the Williamsburg Bridge into a colorful passageway.
Opinion
Women Are Not Seeking Your Validation
Artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's "Stop Telling Women to Smile" project is evolving.
Books
Consider the Migrant
Think of T.J. Demos’s The Migrant Image as a field guide to art for those interested in the politics of human rights, globalization, migration, and war.
Comics
The Next Great American Novelist
It will be an epic.
Art
The Beginnings of Selfie Community
CHICAGO — Is there such a thing as too much of the self? In the age of social networked identities, webcam tears, and plain old selfie criminology, it is possible to indulge in too much self-exploration online.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Ann Freeman says she was a victim of the Knoedler fraud, opera in Beirut, the walk-in prison vagina in Johannesburg, the YouTube war, fashion's 3D printing moment, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Wave
With Labor Day coming tomorrow, Weekend Words waves a regretful farewell to the last waves of summer.
Art
Some Thoughts on Clement Greenberg and His Legacy
In his introductory essay to Vitamin P, a survey of contemporary painting first published by Phaidon in 2002, the poet and critic Barry Schwabsky takes pains to point out the variety of stylistic positions available to a contemporary painter. In doing so, Schwabsky suggests that there is no single i
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (August 2013, Part 2)
This week, reviews of J Cole, The-Dream, Robin Thicke, and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes.