Art
What Cookie Monster Can Teach Us About Art
From art critic, to poet, to journalist, the Sesame Street character is always hungry for cookies — and in pursuit of beauty.
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A Map of Alexander Calder's New York
Today, on the anniversary of the artist’s death, we chart a few New York spots that were meaningful to Calder — from Greenwich Village to the Upper East Side, and some zip codes in between.
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Why Pimple Popping Videos Are So Strangely Satisfying
YouTube is full of videos of nasty skin conditions getting treated, many of which have over a million views. What's behind our morbid fascination with such entertainment?
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When a Survey Show of Contemporary German Painting ... Isn't One
The curators of Now! Young Painting in Germany have to ask themselves how a survey of German contemporary painting justifies a disproportionate representation of certain art academies.
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Required Reading
This week, the origin of Baby Shark, Martin Scorsese on Superhero movies, TikTok's censorship problems, rappers and the Trump name, Twitter's Saudi Arabia spies, and more.
Interview
Beer With a Painter: Brenda Goodman
“The thing that’s fascinating me now more than anything, is when a painting is right. What makes a painting right?”
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Caravaggio and Bernini, Together at Last
We could call this exhibition a battle of the swaggerers.
Books
Putting the Art Back in Art History
Christopher S. Wood’s A History of Art History will be eye-opening for anyone who cares about art.
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Brian Belott's Satirical Modernist Grids
In his current exhibition, Belott degrades the modernist grid, making it lumpy with swollen puffs that participate in the artwork’s visual order while satirizing it.
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Male Nudes, Exposed and Examined
In unabashedly sexual, but not necessarily erotic paintings and drawings, the artist Aaron Skolnick focuses on men — naked and intimate.
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A Modern Trompe L'Oeil Painter
Kim Tschang-Yeul transformed the formal vocabulary of American abstraction into a symbolic possibility in his paintings. He was not interested in making a pure painting.
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A Monochrome Painter's Immanent Light
Painter Anne Appleby, who lives on a ranch in rural Montana, is highly attuned to the colors she sees in her landscape, as well as to the changing light and seasons.