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ArtRx LA
This week, there are performances from the Wooster Group and Heidi Duckler Dance Theater, the opening of new gallery Vacancy, a survey of 30 years of activism from the art world's conscience, the Guerrilla Girls, and more!
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Manhattan's New Transit Hub Is More Panopticon Than Crystal Palace
Since its glass doors opened and its escalators sprang into motion in early November, the Fulton Center, lower Manhattan’s latest mixed-use landmark, has been described as a “jewel,” a “rare gem,” and a “Crystal Palace.”
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An Exhibition About Dogs That Barks but Doesn’t Bite
CHICAGO — Although cats seem to be the current animal darlings of the art world, DOGS CHASE BALLS at Carrie Secrist Gallery focuses on the less-cooed-about creature.
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ArtRx NYC
It's the middle of January and you're definitely not going to enough art stuff, so we have your guide to fill the void.
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Displaying Three Decades of LGBTQ Art Censored by Museums
In Irreverent: A Celebration of Censorship, opening next month at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York, all of the art has previously been censored from major museums.
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Photo LA Is Not Art Basel, and That's OK
LOS ANGELES — Photography is a schizophrenic medium. It has long served documentary, fashion, and scientific purposes, only more recently has it gained mainstream recognition as a fine art. These dichotomies carry over to the Photo LA fair.
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At Mass MoCA, the Pleasures of Reading XXXposed
The Bibliotecaphilia exhibition opening at Mass MoCA next week features filmmaker Clayton Cubitt’s provocative Hysterical Literature film series, which depicts women reading literature aloud and orgasming.
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John Keats and Martin Puryear, and the Latter’s Renewal of “Negative Capability”
Recently, and rather unexpectedly, the term “negative capability,” which was coined by the poet John Keats, came to mind. Was this an outlandish association to make while looking at Martin Puryear’s debut exhibition at Matthew Marks?
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Capturing the Quotidian in a Fine Mesh of Crosshatching: Paintings and Drawings by Karl Stevens
Karl Stevens’ whisper-soft graphite drawings and smooth-as-ice oil paintings evoke comparison to Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres yet portray neither odalisques nor aristocrats. Best known as a graphic novelist (Guilty; Whatever), Stevens’ canvases and sketches, like his comic strips and watercolors, r
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A Miniature City Built on Unstable Coffee Grounds
Gabriela Salazar has built a small metropolis in a basement in Bushwick.
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The Designs of Dissent
LONDON — Two inflatable cobblestones, outsized and dully metallic, hang from the ceiling. It’s implicit: these are material agents of anarchy, the airborne heralds of revolution.
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Art Bot Buys Drugs, Tests the Bounds of Consciousness
What becomes of identity and interpersonal communication on the dark web, where anonymity is paramount?