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Building a Better Bushwick Film Festival
Running over the course of a weekend, the Bushwick Film Festival was New York's smaller, local, more intimate alternative to more sprawling events like the New York Film Festival.
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Art Rx
This week, more of our favorite annual fall events roll around, including the Art in Odd Places festival and the architecture and design–focused Open House New York. Otherwise, it's an eclectic bunch, with lots of stuff to keep you interested.
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Modern Africa Photographed from Inside and Out
OAKLAND, Calif. — Those of us who study photography are familiar with the notion of the photographer's gaze.
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Road Tripping to the Queer South
CHICAGO — A seven-week road trip isn't something you just plan overnight. In fact, it's a long-term project that takes significant strategizing and visits to couchsurfing.com. Once on the road, it becomes clear that not everyone has the stamina for that seemingly never-ending alone time, the ritual
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How to Paint Like Vermeer, as Explained by a Techie
CINCINNATI — Tim Jenison is an imaging software engineer who talks like Oracle founder Larry Ellison but looks like artist Chuck Close. Jenison believes he has solved one of the greatest mysteries in art: how did 17th-century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer paint so photo-realistically 150 years befor
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The Many Faces of Abstraction
Recently I was talking to a sculptor friend and made a flippant remark that it seemed to me as if “abstract painting is back.” A seasoned 65 to my slight 27, he smiled as he asked: “Again?”
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ArtPrize and Its Discontents
CHICAGO — At surface value, ArtPrize is all giant flowers, mythical dragons, yarn-bombed trees, and cash galore. Begun in 2009, the annual event attracts thousands of visitors from Michigan and elsewhere, a strange combination of populism and art world elitism wrapped into one — but it is not an ide
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Christine Hill’s Small Business
I had just finished reading The House of the Seven Gables when I encountered Berlin-based American artist Christine Hill’s artist-shop “Small Business,” the current iteration of her ongoing project Volksboutique, which has taken the form of a number of shops, “organizational ventures,” and intervent
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Systems That Set You Free: Current Work by Steve Roden
At last, New York is getting to see a broad range of work by Steve Roden, an L.A.-based artist who makes paintings, drawings, sculptures, sound compositions and sound installations determined by self-invented systems.
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Next Stop, Reality: A Sixties Radicalism Revisited
Radio Waves: New York “Nouveau Réalisme” and Rauschenberg at Sperone Westwater is a long-overdue exhibition revolving around the enigmatic Swiss artist Jean Tinguely.
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Heavy Metal Fatalist: Chris Burden at the New Museum
What’s most compelling about Chris Burden: Extreme Measures — the Los Angeles-based artist’s first New York retrospective, which has taken over five floors of the New Museum — is what’s not there. Or almost not there.
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Exclusive Highlights from Performa 13's Surrealist Reader
Here is an exclusive look at Performa's Surrealist Reader, along with excerpts of many of the texts.