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Drawing on Humanity's Animal Nature
PARIS — Karel Appel would start drawing by shimmering bright muck or line around until it eventually formed into semi-abstract philosophical lava, or monkey shit, or the poetry of release.
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How the Naming of Clouds Changed the Skies of Art
The clouds in many 19th-century European paintings look drastically different than those in the 18th century.
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The Modernist-Inspired Watercolors of a Pioneering Pueblo Painter
Tsireh's watercolors recall a remarkable period of creative art-making from the Native American community, and this exhibition gives him dimension and the recognition he deserves.
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Rescuing an Obscure Photographic Archive of Early 20th-Century Argentina
When German-born photographer Annemarie Heinrich opened her first studio in 1930, her adopted country of Argentina was experiencing a time of change from old cultural practices to industrialization.
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Robert Smithson's Sacred and Profane Pop
Pop, an exhibition currently on view at James Cohan’s new Grand Street location, explores a more obscure phase of Robert Smithson’s tragically brief career: his figurative engagement with popular culture.
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In San Francisco, Closing the Gap Between Art and Tech
SAN FRANCISCO — In an exhibition on view at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, nine Bay Area artists play with robotics, sculpture, lights, sound, video, and digital technologies to alternately engage, critique, and embrace our present-day entanglement with the digital world.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, Thomas Kovachevich exhibits his minimal tape and plastic works at Tif Sigfrids, the J. Paul Getty Museum screens an Ed Ruscha film about salad, Cherry and Martin opens a show of Ericka Beckman's seminal video installation Cinderella, and more.
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Whether Gotham or Metropolis, New York Is the City of Superheroes
Superhero stories mesh easily with New York, whether it's the new Jessica Jones series, which follows its super-strong private investigator around a noir Manhattan, or the first appearance of Batman, in 1939, soaring over the city.
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Alec Soth's Case Studies of America
LONDON — A British science museum feels like a strange place for a photography exhibition about 21st-century America.
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Art as a Learning Process: The Legacy of Black Mountain College
BOSTON — Founded in 1933 by the classicist John Andrew Rice, Black Mountain College was a shoestring operation deep in the heart of the rural American South that opened as the Great Depression began and another World War loomed just over the horizon.
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ArtRx NYC
Start off 2016 by enjoying one or some of the many performance festivals happening this month, or visit the Reanimation Library in its new home, or catch a historical survey of art brut in America before it's gone.
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A Rare Encounter with an Aaron Douglas Painting that References Slavery’s Past
Lavender and gold silhouettes of soldiers on horseback, waves, and a kneeling figure overlap on the flat plane of Aaron Douglas's "Let My People Go" (1935–39).