Art
The Loving, Self-Deprecating Comics of Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Robert Crumb
An exhibition at David Zwirner brings together the artist couple's individual and collaborative autobiographic comics.
David Zwirner
Art
Art Under the Influence of a Day Job
Now showing at David Zwirner, People Who Work Here is a celebration of the many artists who help run one of the world’s most powerful galleries.
Art
Exposing the Editor’s Hand in 20th-Century News Photos
Photography has never gazed so deeply into its own navel as with Thomas Ruff.
Art
Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon's Weird Mind Meld
Gumby, surfers, penises, Batman and Robin, naked ladies with machine guns, Diamond Dogs-era David Bowie, bats and skulls, Charles Manson, dancers in polka dot dresses: These are a few of the motifs that crop up in Forgetting the Hand, a show of collaborative works by artists Raymond Pettibon and Mar
Art
In New York City, Punk Is in the Air
There was a week in high school when my mom begrudgingly let me stay out in New York City for almost three nights in a row.
Art
Wolfgang Tillmans: A Wandering Eye Enamored with the World
Wolfgang Tillmans’s oeuvre has the rare ability to move across genres, mediums, and styles while still remaining indisputably singular. His exhibition of 175 recent works at David Zwirner, entitled PCR, is no exception.
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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.
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.
In Brief
Artists from Five Galleries Dominate US Museum Shows
The Art Newspaper published the results of research that found that artists from five of the world's biggest galleries accounted for nearly a third of solo museum shows in the US between 2007 and 2013.
Art
Al Taylor: Not Yet in from the Cold
New York’s art world institutions still haven’t recognized how good an artist Al Taylor was. They overlooked his work while he was alive, and seem hellbent on continuing that willful blindness now that he is dead.
Opinion
Oscar Murillo Made His Collector Cry
In a dispatch this weekend appearing in Artforum's usually stultifying Scene & Herd blog, it was reported that Oscar Murillo had carried out an intriguing intervention at a party hosted by the collector Frances Reynolds.
Art
The Durable Modernism of Bridget Riley
LONDON — Riley’s paintings establish a sort of bridge between old inquiries and more recent art: no matter how many years have passed since the inception of Modernism, she seems to suggest its bases are still the fundament of artistic endeavor, and always will be.