Film Review
The Slow, Easy Splendor of Peter Hujar’s Day
Taking its script from a 1974 recording of the artist talking to writer Linda Rosenkrantz, a new film offers a tender portrait of Hujar’s life before art-world fame.
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News
Portrait of Enslaved Man Dispels Years of Falsehoods
The truth of Frederick Baker’s life was long obscured by a whitewashed history perpetuated by the Longwood mansion in Mississippi, new research says.
Guide
Five New York City Art Shows That We Love Right Now
From George Morrison to June Leaf, the city is alive with wonderful abstract and carnivalesque art.
News
Hauser and Zwirner’s UK Galleries Report Nearly 90% Drop in Earnings
The news of the dip in profits, reported in public financial filings, comes amid a rumored global art market downturn.
News
Artist Odili Donald Odita Sues Jack Shainman Gallery
The painter accuses the gallery of retaining over $1M worth of artworks in a claim that challenges models at the heart of the artist-dealer relationship.
Art Review
Tapestries That Contain the World
Nour Jaouda creates a patchwork space where history, memory, and landscape are made, mourned, and ever-returning.
News
Oregon Republicans Caught Posting Misleading Protest Image
The group deleted the photo, which depicted South American riot police.
Art Review
The Explosive Ecstasy of June Leaf
A retrospective leaves you feeling as though you have experienced a life as well as a body of work.
Art Review
George Morrison Painted a Different Picture of Abstract Expressionism
The Ojibwe artist was active in New York's midcentury art scene and embraced by fellow Abstract Expressionists, yet he’s rarely in canonical histories today.
Interview
Laurie Anderson Isn’t Playing Games
In the artist’s studio, we played her 1995 Puppet Motel on a blue iBook G3 and talked about technology, cyberspace, and abstraction.
News
NYC Removes World’s Fairs Mosaics, a Slice of Queens Art History
The in-ground artworks in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, which referenced Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol, had suffered from weather-related deterioration, officials said.
News
Kentucky’s Speed Museum Axes Education Department
Nine employees were laid off as a result of the department’s dissolution, attributed to a “challenging financial period.”