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Beyond the Igloo: Mario Merz in London
LONDON — Among the few Italian contemporary art movements that made a mark on the international scene in 20th century, Arte Povera is probably the most interesting.
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Assessing the Gender Gap in Architecture
Here's your daily dose of gender gap reality: although more women seem to be going into architecture, parity between the sexes remains far off in the field.
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Savvy Miniaturist Mints Pop Culture Portraits on Coins
Talk about cultural currency! The Sao Paulo-born, Frankfurt-based artist and designer Andre Levy has earned himself a huge online following and an exhibition at Stew Gallery in Norwich, England with his project Tales You Lose, for which he turns the portraits of monarchs and political heroes adornin
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Basquiat in the American South
NEW ORLEANS — To see Basquiat and the Bayou, the “exhibition within an exhibition” that by general consensus is the must-see component of the sprawling Prospect.3: Notes for Now biennial triennial that opened in New Orleans on October 25, you need to make your way to the top floor of the Ogden Museu
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The Psychedelic and Porcine Provocations of Oreet Ashery
LONDON — If you like bacon and don’t have a menial job, here’s the show to make you feel bad.
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A Manhattan Waiting Room, Rediscovered in Park Slope
You could be forgiven for thinking there's been a minor rip in the space-time continuum if you came across Corina Reynolds's exhibition at Open Source Gallery by chance.
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What Do Classical Antiquities Look Like in Color?
Everyone knows that classical sculpture is white. Think of the gleaming marble of artworks like the Belvedere Torso and "Laocoön and His Sons" — the whiteness imparts a kind of purity, a sense of being the ground zero of Western culture, the original from which an entire civilization's canon has spr
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Blood, Guts, and Corporate Sponsorships
Even for a jaded explorer in cinema’s nether regions, Northville Cemetery Massacre is a sleazy trip. “It’s a pretty nasty exploitation film,” Jon Dieringer, the programmer behind Anthology Film Archives’ current series, Industrial Terror, concedes, before detailing the specifics: rape, police brutal
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Photographs from a 1950s Cross-Dressing Retreat
An elegant black envelope arrived in my mailbox last week. Inside is a square, burgundy-colored folder containing a catalogue of 1950 and ’60s snapshots. On the cover, an off-white, hand-lettered logo reads “Casa Susanna.”
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Chris Ofili's Gone and Dung It Again
A more descriptive subtitle for Chris Ofili: Day and Night, the New Museum's dazzling survey of Chris Offili's paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, would be "Day and Night and Day."
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Transforming Queer Soldiers' Dreams into Art
SAN FRANCISCO — Can the stories of queer soldiers being marginalized, brutalized, and disenfranchised in the United States be considered dreams, or would it be more appropriate to call them nightmares?
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A Child's Drawings Preserved over the Centuries by "Magical Mud"
In one region of Russia, the consistency of the earth is just right that manuscripts dating back centuries emerge almost perfectly preserved. Over the past year, more than 1,000 of these birch bark artifacts from the 11th to 14th centuries have been exhumed from the soil of Novgorod, adding to a gro