Books
At the start of Karen Green’s prismatic first book, Bough Down, it is June. “Does it begin like this?” she writes, and describes in glittering prose a pastoral arrangement of household objects: garden hose, cigarettes, fuzzy pills, artichoke stalks. The items seem innocent enough until they become i
Art
The elaborately baroque art of Matthew Barney puts some people off, and I count myself among them. His Olympian athleticism, symbol-laden costume dramas and obsession with petroleum jelly can be fascinating, but they can also feel chilly and remote.
Art
The art of memorial sculpture has by its nature an emotional resonance due to its role in honoring the dead, but there's a living, human beauty to it as well. It's these aspects of cemetery sculpture that Italian photographer Mattia Mognetti captures in his 2013 Graveyard People series.
Performance
First, there was Leonardo the Musical, a mostly fictional production about Leonardo da Vinci and the Mona Lisa. Then there was the three-hour-long Starry Nights, about, yes, Vincent van Gogh. Next came Pop!, a piece of "canned camp," as the New York Times called it, focused on Andy Warhol and the Fa
Art
I like to think of the mythical Netflix Marathon as the process of accumulating inspiration, but it could be more realistically dubbed procrastination. Either way, it has become a talent I’ve honed to perfection, one that I desperately need to figure out a way to work into my résumé.
News
The battle over the future of the Detroit Institute of Arts' collection is still only a theoretical one, but that hasn't stopped high-profile people throughout the state from taking sides. The latest entrant into the fray is Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, who says the art cannot be sold to
Art
Before AIDS activists plastered posters reading "Silence = Death" on New York City walls and ACT UP shouted, "Fight Back, Fight AIDS," the disease had already claimed the lives of thousands of New Yorkers. The first five years of the AIDS epidemic were characterized by a lack of information about th
Art
Last week when I found myself in Times Square late in the evening hours, there was a man in a perfectly pressed suit, sitting in chair before the TKTS booth staring intently into space. There was a girl in glittery underwear and bunny ears hopping around a construction area for tips. There was the g
Interview
Kymia Nawabi took home first prize on season two of Bravo's Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, taking home $100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. On the final episode of Work of Art, she organized her works in a presentation entitled Not for Long, My Forlorn, a series of drawings th
Comics
Although even if she's not in the NSA, I guess I've just spilled the beans anyway …
News
AUSTIN, Texas — In a strange sequence of events, it seems that the Hefner Empire wants — and has recently obtained — a lease on 6,500 square feet of land west of Marfa, Texas, which is best known in the art world as the home of artist Donald Judd's Chinati and Judd Foundations.
Opinion
On the second track of David Byrne's last album with the Talking Heads, he told the story of Mr. Jones, a pyrotechnic jack-of-all trades, "everybody's friend," straddling the creative universe of "rock stars" and the hum-drum of "conventioneers." But when Byrne took to the stage last week, all wire-