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Finding Community in the Picture Windows of Paris
Anonymity can be comfortable, though, which is why — for many of us at least — the desire to connect rarely propels us beyond a voyeuristic curiosity about the neighbors.
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Contemporary Fresco That’s Off the Wall
It isn’t often one comes across fresco paintings in art galleries, the last time I remember seeing a sizable number was the “Rooms” section of the Francesco Clemente retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in 1999.
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The Women Tagging and Painting the Streets of Bogotá
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Here, where graffiti is classified as a violation rather than a crime, street artists do not have to hide. Bright murals, often uncompromisingly political, cover public walls, as well as those of home and business owners who, understanding the value (cultural and financial), allow
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Dozier Bell: Descending, Lifting, Rising, Swells
In a statement about her life and work written a few years back, Dozier Bell started off by highlighting her roots in Maine, which stretch back seven generations, and the role they play in the way she perceives the world.
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Maria Lassnig in New York, 1968–1980
In this century, the Museum of Modern Art has presented a series of exhibitions of women artists from other countries: Lygia Clark, Isa Genzken, Alina Szapocznikow, Sanja Ivekovic, Marina Abramovic, Marlene Dumas, Pipilotti Rist, Lucy McKenzie. But very often, the accompanying texts place them in an
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Explosive Drawing: Susan King’s Mash-ups, Strange Landscapes, and Other Worlds
Very few creations are as hard to pin down as those produced by the most original self-taught artists, who primarily make their art for themselves rather than for the market or the public.
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Gods and Monsters: Cubism at the Met
“To a new world of gods and monsters” is the promethean pledge from one mad scientist to another in James Whale’s classic Bride of Frankenstein (1935), but it’s easy to imagine the same toast echoing from a Montmartre studio in 1909 as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque raise a glass to the fractured
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An Ecology of Affect and Desire: AA Bronson's 'House of Shame'
GWANGJU, South Korea — I visited AA Bronson’s House of Shame with a feeling of intense excitement and curiosity.
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Get Your Fix of a Sinister Post-Human Future
Artist Saya Woolfalk has created a little utopian hive of serenity in the large front gallery of the Smack Mellon in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
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Mixing Classical and Gay Male Teen Desire
LONDON — In the Natural History, Pliny the Elder discusses the origins of sculpture by telling the story of Butades of Corinth, the first Greek modeler of clay.
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An Alternative to the Art Fair Marathon
I didn't expect to say this, but Independent Projects is a lovely fair. Started by the creators of the Independent, Armory Week's alterna-fair, and taking place in the same location, the former Dia Art Foundation building on West 22nd Street in Chelsea, Independent Projects simultaneously builds on
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In Jerusalem's Old City, a Different Kind of Cubism
EAST JERUSALEM — Walking through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City it is hard not be to fascinated by the folk paintings appearing on the homes of pilgrims who returned from the Hajj in Mecca.