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Art Rx
On the short list for the week is a big show of Cuban-American art in the Bronx, a screening of cinematic classic Requiem for a Dream, and your last chance to see the retrospective of one of the greatest comic artists of our time.
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A Rap Epic for the Enigmatic Toynbee Tiles
Tiles embedded in busy intersections around North and South America have been appearing for two decades. No one knows who their creator is, but the Toynbee tiles, as they're called, have been the subject of a 2011 documentary and extensive archiving and mapping of their locations. Now the cryptic ph
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A Visual History of Federal Art Spending in the United States
PHILADELPHIA — Art for Society’s Sake: The WPA and Its Legacy, on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts through April 6th, recalls an era in this country when the dissemination of art was a governmental duty, with the arts substantially funded on the federal level.
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Three Decades of Anti-Apartheid Activism Now Available Online
Three decades of activist material from what is one of Great Britain's most intensive international grassroots political organizations is now online.
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In the Shadow of Art Spiegelman
The problem of Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix: A Retrospective is that its current showing, at the Jewish Museum in New York, is its only stop in the United States.
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Selfie Justification
LOS ANGELES — I hit the brakes at a stoplight and turn my head to the left. I spot a young woman waiting for the bus. In golden capital letters on her t-shirt, the words WHY NOT shine boldly.
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Kathy Butterly and the Aesthetic Challenge of “No Two Alike”
I don’t think it is an exaggeration to say that ceramics are finally beginning to get some serious attention in New York. There is still a very long way to go, but the city does seem to be waking up to ceramics as an art form.
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Norio Imai and Tsuyoshi Maekawa’s New York Debuts: Outside Japan, the Enduring Lure of Gutai
In recent years, both within and outside Japan, interest in the post-World War II Gutai art movement has increased considerably, with major museum exhibitions appearing at such venues as the Museo Cantonale d'Arte in Lugano, Switzerland, the National Art Center in Tokyo, and the Guggenheim Museum i
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Texting at the Whitney Biennial
Adam Weinberg, the director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, was candid in his opening day remarks when he commented that the Biennial had in the past been thought of — or was criticized for not being — a representative snapshot of American art.
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Julije Knifer’s Unstable and Expansive Geometry
For the first time in America, we have the opportunity to see the stark abstract paintings and drawings of the Croatian artist Julije Knifer (1924–2004), which are on display at Mitchell-Innes and Nash through today.
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Everlasting Love: Susan Silas's Intimate Photographs
By employing photographic techniques usually reserved for fashion models or luxury goods, Silas achieves an unsettling dichotomy between allure and aversion.
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Italian Futurism, or the Lessons of Art and Politics
The exhibition Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe, presently on view at the Guggenheim, is the first important museum survey of work from this seminal utopian Modernist movement seen in New York since Futurism at the Museum of Modern Art in 1961.