Art
The Experimental Eclecticism of Ed Moses
His daring embrace of an anti-style approach opened up new potential for abstract painting.
Art
Art
Required Reading
This week, Hollywood's drug war, commodifying Banksy, don't trust Facebook, Trump's fear of architecture critics, picturing the migrant crisis, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Deny
"Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends."
Art
Weekend Studio Visit: Richard Hull in East Village, Chicago
There is something wonderfully incongruous about what Richard Hull calls his “stolen portraits.”
Art
The Beauty of Absent Bodies
Whoever thought that Carl Andre’s joyless, hug-the-floor sculpture was the logical culmination of Brancusi got it wrong. This kind of thinking strikes me as macho, competitive, and prescriptive.
Art
Hurricane Frank: Rhetorical Abstraction in the Age of the Incidental Viewer
If Frank Stella’s ambition and insatiable visual voracity were exhilarating at first, the paintings’ often overbearing size and physicality also left the viewer, time and again, with the unsettling feeling of being wrestled to the ground.
Art
Kenji Fujita's Vernacular of Accumulation
Binary oppositions get slammed a lot in our “rhizome”-besotted era, sometimes with interesting results.
Art
What We Are Asked to See
We may choose to partake of the comfort that Sarah McEneaney’s scenes of domestic tranquility have to offer. Or we may choose to probe deeper.
Art
The Eternal Returns of Richard Pousette-Dart
In a socially boisterous art world inspired by Existentialism, jazz, and booze, Richard Pousette-Dart preferred introversion, secular spiritualism, and depth psychology.
Art
Yoko Ono’s Art in Remote Japan: Traveling Far to See the Sky
In a woodsy patch of a park tucked next to a stream, one of Yoko Ono’s most unusual creations can be found in what is, for any artist’s work, a most unexpected setting.
Art
Be a Better Robert Moses in Games that Deconstruct His Legacy
A competition challenged developers to reinterpret a biography of the "master builder" as interactive experiences.
Art
Hand-Colored Photos of Religion in Meiji-Era Japan
A small exhibition at Resobox gallery in Queens offers a glimpse of spiritual activity from the past.