Opinion
Required Reading
This week, artist's explore Christmas, photography and slavery, Rosler's unradical garage sale, Norman Foster's NYPL designs, early Franz Kline, Hoberman on The Hobbit, and more.
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Opinion
Weekend Words: Gifts
Weekend Words turns to gifts, for the obvious reasons.
Art
In the Desert with Richard Artschwager
“In my beginning is my end.” The first line of T. S. Eliot’s poem “East Coker” — the second of his Four Quartets — came unexpectedly to mind when I returned for a last look at Richard Artschwager’s The Desert, a selection of pastels along with two paintings, at David Nolan Gallery. Artschwager’s mis
Poetry
The Obscenities Are in Quotes
Whatever became of the New York School? There was a first generation, the last avant-garde according to some (but not so last that there couldn’t be a second generation and a third, and …) as whatever it was that defined the school as a school, beyond the simple fact of friendship, dissolved into th
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MoMA’s Show of Shows: “Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925”
Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925, the new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, should be the kind of show that MoMA was made for, and it is. Like last year’s de Kooning: A Retrospective (which could have been subtitled Deconstructing Abstraction), the new show draws on the museum’s finest traditi
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A Post-Apocalyptic Art Conspiracy Theory
It’s December 21st and the world as we know it is still here. The Mayans probably stopped their calendar because they thought by now we’d have a better grasp of the cosmic forces that lie beyond the scope of human reason, but as much as we know, it’s not like we’re more advanced. Indeed, because we
Art
Guns, Performance Art, and the Tools to Understand
Today's NRA press conference was repulsive to everyone except the most die-hard gun lovers who don't see why anyone would do anything to regulate, prohibit, or curb their distribution. Our favorite irreverent anti-war activist group, Code Pink, disrupted the proceeding a number of times, interruptin
Art
Looking Back: What I Saw and What I Learned at Art Basel Miami Beach
Puzzled. That’s a good word to describe my state of being for my first Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB). One of the primary things I learned is that art fairs can be fun — when you’re standing on the right side of the velvet rope and you have all the right RSVPs and a prepared partinerary printed out.
Art
Recovering the History of the Puerto Rican Art Workers' Coalition
A few times during her talk last week, historian and curator Yasmin Ramírez looked over at the copy of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era by Julia Bryan-Wilson sitting on the table in front of her. It wasn’t a look of love. Each time she referenced the book it was, at least in part
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Threatened Frank Lloyd Wright House Is Saved
While most of us don't believe in Christmas miracles, this story may come close. Two and a half months after a story about the potential destruction of a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Phoenix, Arizona, appeared on the front page of the New York Times, a deal has gone through to buy the building from i
Interview
Gays, Grindr, the Holocaust Memorial, and Art: An Interview with Marc Adelman
BERKELEY, California — Marc Adelman's project, "Stelen (Columns)" has been met with critical acclaimed and controversy. It's time to hear what the artist himself has to say about the series.
Opinion
Know Your Drones With This Model Identification Kit
Is it a bird? A plane? Superman? Nope, it's a remote-controlled surveillance and/or killing machine. James Bridle, the coiner of the New Aesthetic, has created a model kit to help civilians better understand their UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles).