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I Am Joe Scanlan
Now that the Whitney Biennial is over and the critical debate around it has subsided, I feel it's time to put this project to rest: I created Joe Scanlan.
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Art Rx
This week is all about alternatives in New York. So if you can't make it to the feminist reading of the New York Times at the Brooklyn Museum, then try to make the discussion about internet comments at the Housing Works Bookstore in Nolita.
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A Photographer's Elegy to Kodak City
In her series Kodak City, Catherine Leutenegger documents the photographic giant's now-dilapidated headquarters using the same medium that Kodak made accessible to millions around the world.
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Henri Langlois: Remembering a Titan of French Cinema
PARIS — With the ubiquity of cinema today — in airplanes, on the internet, on cable movie channels — familiarity may not always breed contempt, exactly, but it does tend to inspire complacency.
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Soccer in Ancient Times (and Art)
In 1977, Brazilian soccer star Pelé posed for Andy Warhol, who snapped a photo to use in the creation of one of his iconic screenprints. But Pelé didn’t need Warhol to immortalize him; he was already arguably the greatest player in the world’s most popular sport.
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Joyce Robins’s Subtly Colored, Imageless Objects
In an interview that appeared last month in The Brooklyn Rail, Joyce Robins, while addressing the relationship between abstraction and representation, pointed out: “’Vly’ is a Dutch word for swamp.”
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The Violent History of Kent Monkman
In Kent Monkman's first New York solo show, which closes this weekend at Sargent's Daughters, art history commingles with cultural mythology in a passion play about masculinity and belonging.
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“From the Light to the Dark, and from the Dark to the Light”: Akira Shimizu Turns Memory Into Art
Sometimes an artist may find inspiration in that ineffable zone where, as the French existentialist writer Simone de Beauvoir once observed, “things of the spirit come first.” Sometimes, too, the most evocative art can emerge from the depths of another endlessly abundant, more fugitive source.
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Beyond Internationalism? Minimal Baroque, Post-Minimalism, and Contemporary Art
According to the international exhibition Minimal Baroque, contemporary art has locked Minimalism and maximalism in a lusty embrace. Moreover, the show claims this antithetical premise to be a productive condition of art making today.
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Tougher than the Rest: Joan Mitchell's Tree Paintings and Black Drawings
There are currently two exhibitions of Joan Mitchell’s paintings and drawings on the same Chelsea street. Taken together, they offer an extended examination of a painter’s process as her sensibilities shift from a dominant mode expression to something altogether different.
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Archaeologist Discusses New Maya Ruins Uncovered in Guatemala
Television may lead us to believe archaeologists lead thrilling lives, crashing through ancient temples and uncovering dinosaur bones à la Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park. In reality, their work is much more quiet and meticulous. Nevertheless, each new discovery — such as the newly unearthed Maya ru
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From Poseurs to Pros: Artists and Their Models
The model is the message in Artists and Their Models, an exhibition currently on view at the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art in Washington.