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Thomas Nozkowski’s Magical Mystery Tour
Simply titled Thomas Nozkowski, this is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at Pace Gallery since 2008, when he first joined the gallery, and this time he has pulled out all the stops.
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Breaking Camp: John Waters After Divine
Shown as part of Beverly Hills John, his third show at the Marianne Boesky gallery, John Waters’s video Kiddie Flamingos made us chuckle, which is rare for a Chelsea gallery work. But then, his gallery art has always been funny.
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Instant Illuminations: Elaine de Kooning’s Early Portraiture
With her passion for people, de Kooning was by inclination a portraitist. But she was equally drawn to experimental art forms as the Abstract Expressionist movement unfolded before her eyes, inside her very home.
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Clearing the Slate: MoMA’s Contemporary Reboot
A few months after having been roundly trounced for The Forever Now: Painting in an Atemporal World, its attempt to assess the current state of painting, the Museum of Modern Art opened a reinstallation of its contemporary collection on the same day as its Björk fiasco.
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What the World Never Looked Like
During the late Renaissance, many gold-thirsty European explorers set sail on a quest to locate the fastest route to the Orient.
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How to Build a Cocktail, Visualized
Back in 1974, a curious construction-style chart of cocktails was made by some employees of the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service.
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Sum of the Arts
People who saw a Ming Dynasty painting and calligraphy show at the National Palace Museum in Taipei in 2014, making it the most popular exhibition of the year = 1,131,788
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50 Years of Self-Representation in Saudi Women's Art
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s relatively young history (the kingdom was established in 1932) is filled with gaps due to poor documentation and preservation efforts, especially when it comes to the many contributions of Saudi women.
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On Kawara's Polite Conceptualism
As my entry into the art world took place just a few years after the Museum of Modern Art’s 1970 Information show, I’ve grown increasingly conscious of an unexpected turn in the positions of several hard-line members of the once aggressively anti-aesthetic conceptual camp.
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An Overly Optimistic Take on Our Post-Human Existence
In the years when I taught an undergraduate art history survey course, I would invariably encounter a student who wanted to know how ancient builders could have produced structures of such precision as the Giza pyramids without the aid of laser devices.
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The Beautiful Mercy of Corita Kent's Screenprints
Sister Corita Kent's tenacity as a feminist, civil rights activist, and antiwar demonstrator belied her prim black habit and fueled the silkscreens she made up until her death in 1986.
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In the State of Nevada, This Land Is Not Your Land
WENDOVER, UTAH — Land use has got to be one of the least sexy topics of conversation.