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Rediscovering Salvatore Emblema
The story of artist Salvatore Emblema (1929–2006) says a great deal about the American century and how it inspired and dominated the narrative of art history.
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Using Theater and Media to Stage the Impossible
Two shows at COIL this year use new media technology to manipulate existing materials to stage a “what if” event. But, despite their appearances, both performances end up with very human stories and rather conventional forms of theater.
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Context and Silence: On the Art Writings of Eva Hesse and Cady Noland
How important is it to control one’s image, to have mastery over one’s oeuvre? As a female artist, to allow one’s life and work to merge is risky. It is a softness.
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The Eccentric Fish Enthusiast Who Brought Armor to the Met
The museums of New York City sprung out of wealth and curiosity, but few of the turn-of-the-century boosters were quite so eccentric or prolific as Bashford Dean. The expert in both fish and armor — and armored fish — was the major proponent and collector behind the Arms and Armor Department at the
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Rediscovering the Dark Splendor of Gustave Doré with Edgar Allan Poe
Completed in 1883, the 26 plates Gustave Doré illustrated for Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" were actually not published until after his death on January 23 of that year.
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Transcending the Surface of Warhol and Marisol
CHICAGO — The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago's Warhol and Marisol focuses on the conversational nature of artworks produced by artists Andy Warhol and Marisol Escobar, who got to know each other in the 1960s.
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The Handwriting on the Wall: Authors' Notes as Art
In grade school, cursive and print were treated like indicators of who we are. The idea seemed to be that how we write reveals something about the way we think and relate to the world. An exhibition at the Drawing Center, Dickinson/Walser: Pencil Sketches, starts from that premise and extend it furt
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Victorian Photo Tricks, From Hidden Mothers to Eyes on the Dead
Victorian photography studios loved a good illusion, whether it was to accommodate the long exposure time, or play with it.
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Hot Internet TVs on Frozen Winter Days
CHICAGO — Media theorist Marshall McLuhan once said that television is cool and radio is hot. This isn’t a temperature thing, but rather a classification of media based on the participation it involves from viewers.
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The Nuclei of a Material World
NEWBURGH, New York — There’s a new year out, and might it not turn on new ways of looking at questions, problems, and their solutions? Or so we’d like to think, about art as much as life.
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Is Wikipedia the Next Frontier for Museums?
Last year, Alexandra Thom spent ten illustrious months on Wikipedia. Thom, with a grant from the Kress Foundation, helped fill the gaps about art and culture on Wikipedia using the collection of the Brooklyn Museum and the expertise of its curatorial department.
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In Search of a Unified Color Theory
MINNEAPOLIS — It takes real brass for a painter to revisit geometric abstraction and color theory at this point in the art historical game, but Ruben Nusz is no dilettante in that generations-long conversation.