Art
Poster Boy Is Subject of Panel this Saturday
This Saturday, January 28, the multidisciplinary arts organization Real Art Ways will present a panel discussion on the controversy surrounding collage street artist Poster Boy, aka Henry Matyjewicz.
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Fountain Art Fair NY Moving to 69th Regiment Armory
There's tons to look forward to this year in art, but the indie energy of the Fountain Art Fair in New York definitely tops our list. To sweeten the deal, Fountain has announced that this year's fair will take place at the historic 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue and 25th Street.
Art
What Is Chicago Style?
CHICAGO — Is Chicago an artistic center on the same level as New York, London or LA? Is there an identifiable “Chicago school," in the same way as the school of Paris or the post-war art movements in Manhattan? Does Chicago produce “famous” artists and artists worthy of greater fame?
Books
John Ashbery's Arthur Rimbaud
It’s to be expected that when America’s greatest living poet publishes a translation of one of the greatest and — to borrow a phrase from the titles of old forgotten anthologies — best-loved poets of world modernity, readers would take notice. And they have, so maybe I should think twice before addi
Art
Everything Is Fine
What does it mean to be “Perfectly Happy, Even Without Happy Endings”? Early this week, The New York Times published an article under that title by longtime Philadelphia Inquirer film critic (and former Village Voice art critic) Carrie Rickey. It told the story of an independent film producer named
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, an unfinished masterpiece, artists on Facebook, Guggenheim's free online catalogues, Okwui Enwezor lectures on art and civic imagination, Russian space, nasty ancient graffiti and much more …
Art
The Immaculate Conception of Damien Hirst
“You do know, don’t you, that even well-meaning people are pawns for the powerful, and when it comes right down to it, humans are best thought of as oversized prawns waiting to be plucked from their beds of ice? Personally, I like to methodically squeeze the plumpest and pinkest ones between my thum
Poetry
They Always Ask for Water
1. Today was unseasonably warm There were mountains in the distance, and disaster was coming. I heard it on the evening news. …
Art
Mirror, Mirror
What do we see when we look at art? What do we want to see? Answers come readily and are various: we seek beauty; enlightenment; pleasure; escape from ourselves; insight into those same selves.
Opinion
Reports from Last Night's Bushwick Panel
Last night's "Confronting Bushwick" was attended by roughly 120 people and there are already two excellent reports published online about the event … not to mention the tweets.
Art
Rembrandt in America
BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA — The Rembrandt in America show at the North Carolina Museum of Art is the largest Rembrandt show ever staged in America, containing 47 works.
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Lewd Monkey Goddesses, Luminous Death and Sequined Birth
Monica Cook’s Volley features a full cast of blemished bedazzled half-human, half-monkey sculptures. When I asked one viewer what he thought his response was, “It’s pretty dark, I mean, this ain’t no Winnie the Pooh you know …”