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Art Rx
It's officially insufferably hot in New York. Whether the weather has you thinking about the environment, feeling gloomy, or making you want to crawl out of your skin, the doctor's got activities for you.
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Our Faces, Our Selfies
CHICAGO — Selfies are part of our voluntary self-exposure in an attempt to take back the images of ourselves, but in the process we also give ourselves away. In the world of online selfies, faces are the focus; bodies tend to appear as afterthoughts. We see a collection of eyes, lips, mouths, noses,
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Unpacking the Instawar Aesthetic
The relationship between the Israeli populace and the country's military is vastly different than the equivalent here in the US. That may sound like an obvious statement, but it's one that kept coming to mind when I read Hyperallergic staff writer Alicia Eler's post last week about the Insta-aesthet
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A Painter’s Retreat: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George
Glen Falls, NY — An ambitious exhibition on view this summer at the Hyde Collection is the first of its kind to explore the formative influence of Lake George on the art and life of Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986). O’Keeffe, the great Maiden of American Modernism, is celebrated most for the existential
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Waste Not, Want Not: Phillip Allen’s Recent Paintings
DUBLIN — Phillip Allen is an English abstract painter in his mid-forties, whose interest in the material possibilities of his medium — ranging from felt tip pens to oil paint and enamel — informs nearly everything else. He would finish a felt tip pen drawing in one sitting, and then, using the drawi
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Hearing the Rhythm of Mass: Nicolas Carone in Jackson Pollock's House
THE SPRINGS, NY — Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning so dominate the creation story of Abstract Expressionism in New York that these two hard-drinking celebrities continue to busy biographers, often crowding out other artists who had the mixed fortune of painting during their twin ascendancy.
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Spinning a Web: When Art Addresses the Infinite
Every so often the idea behind an exhibition comes across as so pertinent and expansive that it makes you wonder why it hasn’t already become part of the conversation. This appears to be the case with Reticulate, a group show at McKenzie Fine Art on the Lower East Side, which explores the concept of
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Choreographing a Discussion About Labor, Feminism, and Performance
Last night's "No Wave Performance Task Force Debate, Round II: Labor" was a curious performance that was organized and structured by choreographer and performance artist Lindsey Drury who refuses to claim ownership of the piece. "It is not mine. I set up the structure but we all own it," she told Hy
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Join Hyperallergic & Art Southampton for a Summer Hamptons Getaway
Well before Julian Schnabel and Eric Fischl made their indelible mark there, the East End of Long Island has loomed large in 20th century American art history. Jackson Pollock decamped from the city to East Hampton when he married Lee Krasner in 1945, establishing a modest home and studio with a loa
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To Err Is Human, to Appropriate Divine
CHICAGO — To steal, to remake, to remix, and to appropriate are all part of being a creative human being. We are inspired and influenced by the works of art we encounter. Imitation is arguably the best form of flattery, and thanks to the internet we can obtain images a whole lot easier. Copyrights b
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#withoutwords: The Existential and Profound in Syria's Emerging Art Scene
LONDON — News from Syria suggests the pen, the paintbrush, the camera, and even needle and thread may be mightier than the sword after all. For what other reason would the government have broken the hands of a political cartoonist. But the fully recovered cartoonist, Ali Ferzat, is back at his desk,
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A Beautiful New Look for NYC's Beaches
Pentagram designer Paula Scher has created a beautiful new program of design for NYC's 14 miles of beaches that presents an optimistic, clean, and attractive vision of what urban beaches should be.