Art
Art Rx
This week, lots of talks, discussions, and conversations to stimulate your intellect — plus a screening of one of the most revered films of all time, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev.
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The Painterly Cravings of Larry Poons
Larry Poons might be considered one of the top painters working today, and he knows it. Over his five-decade career he has painted seminal works that have been shown and owned by an illustrious list of prominent private and museum collections all over the world. Critics and historians have written a
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Who Knew George Washington Was So Artsy?
Happy Presidents' Day! Although today is the day to honor all past US presidents, there's only one whose birthday sparked the creation of the holiday in the first place: George Washington. Yes, that's right — you have George to thank for still being in your pajamas right now.
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On Henry Darger's 15,000-Page Novel
Although he traced and painted and wrote in obscurity until the day he died, Henry Darger is, today, probably the best-known outsider artist in the world. In the past decade or so, the small space of his one-room Chicago apartment ceded to the spacious galleries of museums and art fairs, and Henry D
Comics
Things to Remember When You're Feeling Dumb, Unoriginal, Lazy and Overly Serious
Advice from some great artists always helps …
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Leonardo gets digitalize at the British Museum, Abramović on the value of discipline, Piero della Francesco in America, sustainable architecture, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Quitting
Now that Pope Benedict XVI has decided to pack it in, Weekend Words considers quitting, but not quite yet.
Poetry
Somewhere in the Back of the Stars Is the Poet Alfred Starr Hamilton
I bought The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton shortly after it came out and had it in my possession for many years. Somewhere in the midst of moving from one apartment to another it got lost. So when the publishers Ben Estes and Alan Felsenthal announced that their press, The Song Cave, was going to p
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Rafael Ferrer’s Gift of Two Dried-Up Pineapples
For those who were unable to go to the Lancaster Museum of Art in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and see RAFAEL FERRER, Works on Paper, A Survey 1952–2012 (September 7, 2012–November 11, 2012), Ferrer’s exhibiion, Calor at the Adam Baumgold gallery will have to do.
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"I Noticed My Friends": Allen Ginsberg's Photography
In his poem "America" (1956) Allen Ginsberg addresses the nation as if it were a codependent lover, asking, "Are you going to let your emotional life be run by Time Magazine?" followed immediately by the confession, "I'm obsessed by Time Magazine. I read it every week."
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The Hand of the Humanist: Leo Steinberg’s Drawings at New York Studio School
Leo Steinberg (1920–2011) was the rare scholar with the ability to alter the way we think about art, history and culture, and, inferentially, the things we create. “The Eye Is a Part of the Mind” is the title of an essay first published in 1953 in Partisan Review and later in Steinberg’s landmark co
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In the Schnabel Chapel, Part 1
Is it possible to look at Julian Schnabel’s “St. Sebastian” (1979) with fresh eyes, as if the past 34 years of Schnabel Sturm und Schnabel Drang never really happened? As if it were a new painting fresh out of an unknown artist’s studio, landing inconspicuously in a storefront gallery on East 10th S