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Your Easy Guide to Greenpoint Gallery Night
Our guide to this Friday's Greenpoint Gallery Night … featuring 15 galleries across North Brooklyn.
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Why Was a Major Outsider Art Survey 91.3% Male?
LONDON — A major survey of outsider art, Hayward Gallery's Alternative Guide to the Universe closed on August 26. It was a show featuring many of outsider art's most prolific practitioners of the last several decades, all under the aegis of providing institutional space for "alternative" modes of kn
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The Cacophony Society and Adventures in Urban Voids
It's an exciting moment for a certain type of person when you find you are not a solitary traveler into the voids of the city.
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Deep Blue vs. Kasparov: Machine's Triumph Over Man
The 1997 six-game match between Garry Kasparov — arguably the top chess player of all time — and IBM's Deep Blue computer was an epochal moment, our blockbuster modernization of John Henry against the train. But it's not obvious fodder for theater.
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Art Rx
This week, the openings continue, plus a discussion of the experimental black aesthetic and a chance to commission a personalized PowerSuit.
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James Turrell, The Natural, and The Artificial
I have been in the presence of the Grand Canyon four times so far, have been down the lip of the Grand Canyon a couple of miles, have seen it in a variety of seasons — spring, summer, and fall — in a variety of weather conditions — snowfall on the rim and desert heat down below — among a throng and
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AA Bronson's Garden of Queer Delights
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands — Nothing says mystery like an invite-only launch featuring a performance piece scheduled for one minute past midnight.
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Selfie Discomfort and the Public Gaze
CHICAGO — I have to be honest with you: I feel uncomfortable receiving your selfies. Even though I have asked you for them, and you offered consent through your action of sending them to me. You made a decision to email me something privately, and that I can assure you is viewed privately, by me, at
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Abstract Expressionism’s Missing Link
Angels, Demons, and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet, which was organized by Klaus Ottmann and Dorothy Kosinki for The Phillips Collection, Washington DC. (February 9–May 23, 2013) and is currently at the Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, New York (July 21–October 27, 2013), is — for many reasons —
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Simon Hantaï’s Discontent
In 1983, at the height of his career, Simon Hantaï (1922–2008), then sixty years old, decided to withdraw from the art scene and stop exhibiting his work, if not to stop painting altogether. He would not show again until 1998, a fifteen-year hiatus and self-imposed silence that echo with more force
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Why Watching Cat Videos with 10,000 People Matters
A week ago Wednesday night, I sat down in a green metal chair at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand and watched an hour and a half of Internet cat videos on a giant screen alongside 10,000 people. When this little guy licked a vaccum cleaner, 10,000 of us chuckled together; when these sad cats lame
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How Van Gogh's Ear Incident Went 'Viral' in 1888
Vincent van Gogh had big dreams for his stay in the town of Arles, for the partnership he would build with fellow artist Paul Gauguin in that Yellow House in Provence. Alas, as has become art history lore, it would go rather poorly, with the image of the fragile painter of sunflowers with his head w