Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the 20 tallest buildings of 2012, MoMA launches Louise Bourgeois website, the art market in 2013, Neil Gaiman talks about "making good art," a rare Hiroshima photograph, Zora Neale Hurston on zombies, and more.
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Opinion
Weekend Words: Beasts
The other day, Hyperallergic's Allison Meier reported on snakes who are artists, rather than the other way around. Weekend Words ponders the distance between us and our beastly brethren.
Music
Mic Drop: 2012 Hip-Hop Faves
2012 was a good year for hip-hop heads not least because it was a year that saw the emergence of Joey Bada$$, a preternaturally-gifted rapper from Flatbush who (incredibly) turns just eighteen later this month.
Art
The World According to Charles Ginnever
For those weary souls who claim that there is nothing new under the sun, especially in the realm of art, where everything has already been done, I offer this observation by Kenneth Baker, which appeared without fanfare in the pages of the San Francisco Chronicle …
Interview
Wild, Punk and Slightly Off-Kilter: An Interview with Mary Heilmann
I visited Mary Heilmann recently in her Bridgehampton studio. At the end of our time together, she took a small painting of a wave, and turned it upside-down. It was the perfect gesture to sum up our conversation and the themes of her work — an offhand reminder of its yin-yang quality. Heilmann’s wo
Art
The Last of the True Believers
Just the other day, I was deep in the bowels of the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art when I thought of Paul Resika. I had met him briefly many years ago, when I was a graduate student and he was a guest critic. In the middle of a group critique he mentioned that he visited the
Interview
When Paintings Come Apart: Sharon Butler on the Inside Out
Wandering through the Museum of Modern Art, I came across the gallery partially devoted to the work of Robert Rauschenberg. It was the first time I had been there since the iconic “Canyon” (1959) — the one with the stuffed bald eagle — was donated to the museum by the Ileana Sonnabend estate.
Opinion
Everyone Has Something to Say About Kate Middleton's Royal Portrait
As soon as we published Samantha Villenave's essay "Kate Middleton Portrait Buzz: Art Criticism, Sexism, or Something Else?" (01/11/13), we immediately saw readers respond, particularly on Facebook.
Opinion
Richard Serra Discusses Artistic Tools and Strategies
Richard Serra explains the role process has played in his artistic evolution. For the world-renowned artist it is, he explains, an integral part of his work.
Opinion
Kate Middleton Portrait Buzz: Art Criticism, Sexism, or Something Else?
VALENCE, France — The internet has its royal panties in a bustle, once again. Today's unveiling of the portrait of Kate Middleton, or rather the British Duchess of Cambridge, met with gasps of horror, followed by a cascade of sarcastic media and Twitter wit. The subject of much of the outrage and ve
Art
Homage to a City's Queer History
CHICAGO — Edie Fake is a radical punk queer feminist activist. He is currently "at large" in Chicago. Before that, he was driving around the country in a yellow school bus doing the gay performance "Fingers." At the opening of his solo exhibition Memory Palaces at Thomas Robertello, he told me that
Art
Space-Age Architecture in an Unexpected Place
Like ghosts of a future that never arrived, the United States is littered with space age relics that landed in the 1940s to 1960s in the form of diners, banks, motels, and other commercial architecture. While the futuristic style definitely made its mark on the big coastal cities, like with Eero Saa