Art
The Luminous Plastic of an Underappreciated Light and Space Artist
To create translucent sculptures in the colossal proportions he desired, De Wain Valentine needed a new type of plastic.
Chelsea
Art
Two Chelsea Galleries Go Wall Out for Summer
'Tis the season of reduced hours and low-stakes group shows at most Manhattan galleries, but two spaces in Chelsea are bucking the trend with summer exhibitions of large-scale murals.
Art
Politicized Artworks That Ask Viewers to Fill In the Unknowns
Two years ago, at a Cildo Meireles retrospective in Madrid, I sat on a wooden dock that overlooked a paper sea and a vast, blue plaster sky.
Art
The (Un)Changing Portrayal of White Women in 100 Years of Advertisements
The idea is so ingenious, it almost seems obvious: take advertisements and remove the text that makes them so, leaving only a string of images behind.
Books
Photographing the Universal Drama of the School Playground
Even if you don't remember a lick of elementary school classwork, it's likely the joys and terrors of the schoolyard linger.
Art
New York City Museum Celebrates the Culture of Earthquake-Ravaged Nepal
The Rubin Museum of Art opened an installation of Nepalese art today to launch its Honoring Nepal programming series, which celebrates the culture of the earthquake-devastated country.
Art
The Living, Small-Scale Portraits of Alice Neel
Like her paintings, Alice Neel’s watercolors and drawings, now showing at David Zwirner, wobble and tilt out of proportion, only more so.
Art
As Brazilian Art Trends, the Country's Racism Comes to the Fore
As a Brazilian who has lived in the US for the past 10 years, I’ve found Americans’ growing enthusiasm for Brazilian culture and politics both welcome and bothersome.
In Brief
As Pace Expands, New York Galleries Start Dwarfing Museums
On Friday Pace Gallery revealed plans to build an eight-story, 60,000-square-foot building where the largest of its spaces on West 25th Street in Chelsea currently sits.
Art
Out of This World, Domestic Objects Transcend Their Daily Use
New York is a big art city, with big art fairs, big museums, and lots of big concept art.
Art
There's Nothing Sexier Than an Independent Art Fair
"Viewer discretion advised: graphic sexual imagery," reads some floor text that nobody seemed to notice or bother to read this afternoon as they entered Mendes Wood DM's booth at the Independent.
Art
Exploring an Expanded Field at the Outsider Art Fair
Nowhere can you feel the silliness (and yet cloying realness) of the term "outsider art" more distinctly than at the Outsider Art Fair, which, by its very nature, is an insiders' affair.