Art
Art Rx
This week's prescription includes a high dosage of talks and discussions, plus two big-idea shows uptown and two more experimental exhibitions downtown.
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Opinion
Happy Birthday to a Classic
Today, one of my favorite books turns 200: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's brilliant novel of wit, manners, and love. The anniversary got me thinking broadly about the — genre? category? medium? — that seems to be forever expanding these days, book art, and more specifically, about the work of Je
News
Islamist Rebels Burn Libraries Containing Thousands of Medieval Manuscripts
Islamic rebels set fire to two libraries containing tens of thousands of historic manuscripts on their way out of Timbuktu on Saturday. The full extent of the damage isn't known yet, but it seems clear that a good chunk of African medieval history has been destroyed.
Interview
The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Talks About the Womb, Damien Hirst, Acid, and Yoko Ono
"I'm mostly a visual artist, I think," Wayne Coyne told me in a recent phone conversation. That the frontman of The Flaming Lips, one of the biggest experimental rock groups out there, sees himself as a visual creator more than a musician is not too surprising. This is after all the band that's land
Community
A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — In the 32nd installment of the series, artist studios in Delaware, Illlinois, Michigan, and Tennessee.
Art
The Impossibility of Utopia
SANTIAGO, Chile — In Chile, things are happening. On the one hand, there's a group of artists (born in the late seventies and early eighties) travelling outside the country but, for the first time, regulary returning and mounting exhibitions inside the borders. On the other hand, the younger artists
Opinion
Music from the Sahara's Cellphone Music Scene
LOS ANGELES — In places like the US and Korea, it can be easy to rely entirely on the internet. Upload something to Dropbox, download it to your server, let it live on the cloud. But in many parts of the world with unreliable or censored internets, people rely on USB sticks and SD cards to transfer
Comics
What Would You Do for Exposure?
Who hasn't heard the dreaded phrase: "this should be great exposure for you"?
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Hillary Clinton on art, Carl Andre knows he can't draw, the Sistine Chapel has major problems, Larry Gagosian gets profiled, the Rijksmuseum buys its first abstract painting, the Egyptian arts community's problems with their government, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Winter
Everyone talks about the weather, and Weekend Words is no exception. With New York undergoing a long frigid blast this week, let's raise a cold one to winter.
Poetry
On the Poems of John Godfrey
There are poets who wander around a city — from purposeful to aimlessly — and write about their experience. Charles Baudelaire trudged down the new broad avenues of Paris, alone among the window shoppers. While working at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Frank O’Hara liked to walk around midtown
Art
Fritz Winter’s Crystalline Vision
Fritz Winter (1905–1976) is a German artist best known for the abstract paintings he did after World War II. He and Rupprecht Geiger (1908–2009) co-founded the group “Zen 49” in Munich in 1949. Willi Baumeister (1889–1955) was also a member.