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Facing Death with Ebola's Healthcare Practitioners
The strange, protective garments worn by Ebola health care workers have been captured by Peter Casaer, a photographer with Médicins sans Frontières, in a series of discomfiting portraits.
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A Biennial Beyond the Art World
DETROIT — The People’s Biennial at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) successfully draws on the founding concept of the biennial art event, with the original model of the Venice Biennale in 1895 intended to be a sort of World’s Fair of contemporary art.
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The Wonderful World of Rudy Burckhardt
When it comes to the artistic community of New York City, especially from the late-1930s to the end of the 20th century, I can think of many writers, photographers, and artists who readily qualify as flâneur, but there is only who matched Charles Baudelaire’s description of the “passionate spectator
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The Pursuit of Art, 2014
The exhibitions that rippled through our cultural fabric over the past year, at least those occurring in and around New York, have registered the predictable number of highs and lows, though 2014 did manage to plumb one nadir unlikely to be matched for a good long time.
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Mapping the Material and Social Histories of Photographs
The current Museum of Modern Art exhibition Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection, 1909–1949 is just one component of a four-year, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation–funded research project examining photographs not only as art, but as physical objects possessing a material and sociological
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On His 100th Birthday, a Conference Considers William Burroughs's Humanist Legacy
PARIS — With determined indeterminacy, young Mathilde Louette initiated a perplexing but hip four-hour English-language celebration of William S. Burroughs’s 100th birthday on December 12 in Paris, where the writer lived, on and off, between 1958 and 1966.
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Overheard in the Art World
It's been a busy fall, but we always have our notebook with us, so it's time for our irregular feature — and everyone's favorite LULZ — Overheard in the Art World (#OHAW).
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Canadians in the Shadow of Matisse
KLEINBURG, Ontario — With a much-lauded show of cutouts at MoMA and a group exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, Henri Matisse seems to be experiencing (yet another) moment in the North American art scene. Canada’s McMichael Collection has joined the fray with its exhibition Morrice and Lyman in the
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Best of 2014: Our Top 10 Exhibitions Across the United States
This list gives you a sense of some of the best this year across the United States.
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Kicking Back With a Mexican Gang Member
Cracking into challenging subcultures is one of Bronia Stewart’s main objectives as a documentary photographer.
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9 Minimalist Boxes for Boxing Day
Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated by aesthetes the world over. In order to purify ourselves after the rampant commercialism and visual over-stimulation of the past month, we devote this day to the solemn contemplation of square and rectangular Minimalist sculptures.
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A New Book Argues Quilts Are Art
Does quilting count as art? An expansive new survey by authors Linda Baumgarten and Kimberly Smith Ivey says yes.