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Absolutely Modern: Robert Motherwell on Paper
In 1950, when the painter Robert Motherwell invented the phrase "The School of New York," he summed up its mission as "an activity of bodily gesture serving to sharpen consciousness."
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André Robillard Takes Aim at Cast-off Junk — and the Stars
In Europe, the self-taught French artist André Robillard is one of the best-recognized practitioners of this kind of art-making, although his achievements are still not so well known in the US, even among aficionados of outsider or self-taught art.
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A Single Woman Is a Witch: Battling to Save the Art Environment of Mary Nohl
Over a period of 50 years, the artist Mary Nohl transformed her yard as well as the interior and exterior of her cottage into an environment that stands in conversation with the surrounding land, lake, and her childhood memories. Almost immediately after the first cement sculptures materialized in t
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Death and Trade in Vietnam
HO CHI MINH, Vietnam — The exhibition Come to [What] End? tackles big questions in the way that art does best.
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After Three-Year Overhaul, Cooper Hewitt Museum Reopens to the Public
Today a redesigned Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum opens its doors. Over the past three years the museum has completed an extensive physical renovation of its campus, the Carnegie Mansion, a National Historic Landmark building.
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A Memorial to Mexico's Murdered 43
Like many, Nevada-based artist Javier Sanchez was shaken by the disappearance and state-sanctioned murder of the 43 Mexican students this fall.
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Carla Gannis and Hieronymus Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights"
Everett Kane and I got inspired to revisit the "Tree-Man" in the "Hell" panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s "Garden of Earthly Delights," whom some people claim is a self-portrait.
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The Collections Behind Great Artists
"Artists, as we know, are notorious collectors, but you always wonder what came first, the chicken or the egg."
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The Ghost Sounds of Hanoi, Conjured by an App
HANOI — The first thing that struck me about this city was the noise. I arrived by a sleepy overnight train from China, where most of the scooters I'd seen were silent electric bikes. Here the noise was deafening.
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Staging a Performance with the NYPD
In the midst of the recent amazing outpouring of street presence supporting black lives, on Monday night I had an opportunity to witness something a little quieter. Willing Participant, a performance group led by artists Todd Shalom, Ben Weber, and Niegel Smith of Elastic City, held a simple public
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Shooting Sites of Execution
In 2006, Britain's Ministry of Defense officially pardoned 306 soldiers it had executed for cowardice or desertion during World War I. Photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews has embarked on her own photographic tribute to them.
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Hardware and Soft Concepts at the Bass Museum
MIAMI BEACH — In an apparent attempt to show more shiny baubles than all of the art fairs combined, the Bass Museum of Art last week opened One Way: Peter Marino, a perversely perfect complement to its other major exhibition, GOLD.