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The Power of One Human of New York
Brandon Stanton, the founder of the award-winning street photography project Humans of New York, has a story to tell about one of his subjects, an elderly woman whose picture he took at Columbus Circle.
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Art Rx
This week, as always, there is so much good stuff to do, including two niche film festivals, a poet laureate reading Poe, Gowanus Open Studios, a participatory public artwork by Suzanne Lacy, and a lecture by our editor-in-chief, Hrag Vartanian.
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The Honesty of Teens and Their Bedrooms
CHICAGO — An adolescent girl in her bedroom is a curious thing. In her series A Girl and Her Room, Boston-based artist Rania Matar photographs adolescent girls in their bedrooms, capturing them in moments vulnerable and fresh. She manages to do so without a hint of voyeurism, and with a serious dose
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Art Makes the Medicine Go Down
KINGSTON, N.Y. — The O+ Festival in the Hudson Valley town of Kingston, now in its fourth year, trades art and music for health and well-being.
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These Skies Are All Funked Up
Last month's Greenpoint Gallery Night revealed a trend among contemporary artists: they're reveling in ways to make the sky look weird. (Isn't all contemporary art about weird these days?) Seriously, there were no kitschy sunsets or pretty blue skies or brooding storms to be found. No, what feels ri
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Divining the Future of the Past
CHICAGO — Donna Huanca is from the South Side of Chicago, and she hasn't been back here since she was 15, an adolescent girl.
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Lowering the Barrier to Academic Databases
Doing research has always been a difficult endeavor for independent curators and arts historians. Outside the aegis of an academic institution, access to scholarly articles has traditionally been prohibitively expensive.
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All the Art That's Fit to Print
It’s not clear who scooped whom, but there are two gallery shows now on view in New York that examine the relationship between art and the newspaper.
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Weekend Studio Visit: Rick Beerhorst in Grand Rapids, Michigan
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — I first met Rick Beerhorst in 1986, when he was a graduate student in the MFA program at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. One of his teachers was Peter Bodnar, whose small, quirky, symbolic abstractions with a spiritual undercurrent — they share something with J
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Why I’m Not Reading Louise Glück
Do you pick a destination in order to have a reason to take a walk, or do you take a walk in order to get to a place you have in mind? Sometimes one, sometimes the other. Are the words a poet uses essentially a means to convey a thought or feeling he or she has in mind, or is the poem’s subject chos
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Rainbows to No Place: Société Réaliste and the Ayn Rand Apocalypse
The 1949 King Vidor film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead centers on a headstrong New York architect named Howard Roark, who, at grave risk to his architectural practice, spends his days proffering sleek modernist designs to a society mired in its taste for tawdry neoclassicism. When, early
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Leaving Home: René Magritte in Brussels and Paris
In his dismissal of Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938 — the recently opened retrospective of René Magritte (1898-1967) at the Museum of Modern Art — the New York Times’ Holland Cotter cites the ubiquity of the Belgian surrealist’s images and the relative paucity of insight to be glean