Art
Mourning eBay’s Days as the Internet’s Kitschiest, Most Surreal Mall
The passing of the old eBay is the last nail in the cyberflâneur’s coffin.
Essays
Art
How the Cooper Hewitt Museum Reconciles the Old and New
Upon visiting the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, I wonder how it feels both antiquated and technologically advanced at the same time.
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Learning from Vito Acconci, a Relentlessly Curious Teacher
In the Brooklyn College Art Department, where he taught for years, the late artist’s assignments and approaches are legendary.
Art
One Hundred Years of World War
“Wounded Man (Autumn 1916, Bapaume),” from Dix’s portfolio of 50 etchings, The War (Der Krieg), shows a brutal reality that lays waste to George W. Bush’s anesthetized vision of war wounds.
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Three Lessons from Artists’ Protests of the Whitney Museum in the 1960s–70s
Activist efforts targeting the Whitney Museum of American Art across the 1960s and ’70s provide a starting point to consider the ways in which activists today can effect meaningful changes.
Art
A Meditation on the Ineffable Grandeur of Churches
I find that crossing the narthex of a cathedral is like starting a great book: You simply aren’t in your home world anymore.
Art
Looking Back at the Strange and Surly History of Bay Area Funk Art
It is disheartening to see this 50th anniversary of the seminal exhibition Funk pass by without so much as a nod from the art world.
Art
Surveying Landscapes for Clues to Political Violence
Two films made almost 50 years apart use silent shots of landscapes to examine the conditions that drove two young people to criminality.
Art
Seeing Art in the Shadow of Qatar’s Extreme Wealth
A trip to three headline exhibitions in Doha suggests a culture pulled between global and local priorities.
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Why Googling “Miami Inmates” in South Florida Leads to Their Poetry
A massive search activity in South Florida has created search trends, effectively publishing poems by Miami inmates within the suggestions of Google search.
Art
Roger Bissière, The Last "Primitive"
With the death of the French painter Roger Bissière in 1964, a whole chapter of Modernism, one that we could call the “Primitive Paradigm,” came to a close.
Art
I Am Not Your Negress: On Violence and American Necrophilia
I Am Not Your Negro is a spectacularly and explicitly violent film, and yet it's been described as having “implied” violence.