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The Familiar Pull of Alien Objects
Auxiliary Projects, formerly in Bushwick, has relocated to a new space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
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A Ceramicist Captures Nature's Fragility
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island — The environmentalist themes in Jeannie Lynn Hulen's exhibition at GRIN, Gibberish: Sapient Fool's Gold, slowly emerge from the whimsical, child-like installation.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, an experimental sound artist creates work live, a South African photographer opens her largest museum show to date, there's a day to celebrate independent bookstores — and don't forget the opening of the new Whitney Museum!
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The Dada Catalogue Marcel Duchamp Designed to Be Thrown Away
For a 1953 Dada exhibition, Marcel Duchamp designed a one-page catalogue meant to be crumpled up and tossed in the trash.
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Inside a Bikini Factory, a Photographer Plays with Fabric
LOS ANGELES — For the past two years, Anthony Lepore has been making photographs in his father’s bikini factory.
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100 Walkers Spread Cryptic Signage Throughout West Hollywood
LOS ANGELES — New York has Times Square and Las Vegas has the Strip, but more than any other American metropolis, the City of Angels is a city of signs.
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How the Identity Politics of 'Empire' Play Out on Its Walls
Not 10 minutes into the pilot episode of Fox’s TV drama Empire, Kehinde Wiley’s bright yellow portrait “Prince Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria” looms into view above the dining room table where the men of the Lyon family are gathered.
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A Virtual Quilt of Remembrance for Mexico's Murdered Students
Last November, news from Mexico about the 43 missing students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in Guerrero captured international attention.
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In the Move from Stage to Museum, a Dance Becomes Performance Art
BRUSSELS — On a cloudy Thursday afternoon, on the second floor of WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker sat at a long, white banquet table with her head in her hands.
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Bern Porter: Never Finish
It could be argued that Jenny Holzer’s appropriation of advertising language/modes owes something to the Maine-born, physicist-engineer-turned-poet Ben Porter’s brilliant anti-establishment send-ups of the admonitions of ad men.
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Language Is Not Colorless: The Amazing Writing of Sawako Nakayasu
Since the beginning of this century a number of poets of Asian descent have published books that have helped redefine the field of study known as Asian American poetry, while challenging the various received definitions of what constitutes avant-garde or innovative writing.
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A Generosity of Rembrandts: The Late Works at the Rijksmuseum
Rembrandt got old and poor and sad but he never got timid, as the 70 or so paintings on the walls of Late Rembrandt demonstrate.