Opinion
What Does Free Museum Membership Look Like?
The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) has announced that come January 21, two aspects of the museum will be free: general admission (cool!) and memberships (wait, what?).
Latest
Art
Seeing Performance the Marina Abramović Way
“Your mind is not here,” she explains. Standing in the center of the room clad in a floor-length black dress, she is a sharp contrast to the stark white walls. The sweeping space feels anything but, packed as it is with onlookers — some seemingly starstruck, others bewildered — sitting closely toget
Opinion
Glenn Beck Makes Really Bad "Piss Obama" Artwork
Three years ago, New York magazine art critic Jerry Saltz challenged Glenn Beck to curate two exhibitions, one of work he disapproved of, another of work he liked. Beck ignored the offer. But this week, the right-wing radio host entered the art world in different way: he made a piece of art.
Art
A Blind-Date Artists' Talk Casts Doubt on Beauty
Despite the drizzle on a chilly evening, there was a packed (if small) house last night at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP); the reason was a conversation between Brooklyn artist Josiah McElheny and Parisian artist Camille Henrot.
Opinion
Stream the Witte de With Center's Symposium on Independent Art Criticism
Is there such a thing as an independent art criticism? The Rotterdam-based Witte de With Center's symposium I AM FOR AN ART CRITICISM THAT... tackles that topic and many others in a series of panels and discussions, livestreaming today.
Interview
On Painting, the Melting Pot, and Making Soup: An Interview with Iraqi Artist Ahmed Alsoudani
After living through two wars and emigrating from his native Iraq, Ahmed Alsoudani began his study of art in the U.S. shortly before the events of 9/11. Talk about timing. To say this history has influenced his work would be an understatement — it may well be its defining characteristic.
Opinion
Critical Problems: The New York Times, Race, and Gender
Is it just me, or has art writing hit a little bit of a rough patch lately? Some verbal missteps by New York Times art critic Ken Johnson have triggered accusations of buried racism and sexism.
Art
The Snake and the Lost War Diary
CHICAGO — Irena Knezevic's exhibition Night of the World: Flatworks, Multiples and Music Programs embodies a heavy-handedness that could only come from the mind of a Serbian artist living in America post-Yugoslav Wars.
Art
Remembering Radical, Theoretical Architect Lebbeus Woods
Defiantly non-conformist, anti-starchitecture architect Lebbeus Woods died on Tuesday, October 30. He was 72. Through a lifetime of work, the vast majority of it existing only on paper, Woods challenged the architectural establishment, railing against boring buildings and resisting the temptations o
Opinion
Is a Hip Home Base Necessary for Good Art?
In the latest installment in the New York Times Magazine's excellent Riff column, Robert F. Coleman recounts the story of how his band moved to Berlin, that well-known utopia of artists and creativity, and promptly failed.
Art
From Action to Inaction: The Tate's Exploration of Performative Painting
LONDON — It is with the pairing of two 20th-century giants in one room, Jackson Pollock and David Hockney, that the relationship between performance and painting is introduced in A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance, an exhibition currently on view at the Tate Modern.
Art
Art Rx
This week, an eclectic mix of events and some difficult choices. You may not be able to do it all, but you can come close.