Interview
A Novel Written with the Skeptical Mind of an Art Critic
"After publishing the novel, I could not return to scholarly writing and the established formulas of criticism."
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Art
On the Shore of the Hudson, an Occasion to Simply Be
BEACON, NY — "All right, folks, Beacon will be next ... Beacon next, Beeeeaa-con Beacon Beacon," says a Metro-North conductor in my headphones.
Art
Apollinaire, the Immigrant Poet Who Shaped the Parisian Avant-Garde
PARIS — On September 7, 1911, French police arrested poet Guillame Apollinaire for stealing the Mona Lisa.
Art
Extending a Local Legacy, Bay Area Artists and Media Activists Fight for Social Justice
SAN FRANCISCO — Just around the corner from the newly expanded San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) — a veritable temple to wealth amassed in the form of contemporary artworks — the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts has mounted a very different kind of installation, one which monumentalizes act
News
Pokémon Go Users Flock to Museums, Passing Picasso in Search of Pikachu
If you've visited a museum in the last few days and spotted larger-than-average groups of people wandering around and looking a tad lost, their eyes glued to their phones, you were likely witnessing the phenomenon of Pokémon Go.
Art
How Kerry James Marshall Rewrites Art History
CHICAGO — When he studied art history in the 1970s in Los Angeles, Kerry James Marshall was struck by the absence of black artists in the "canon."
Guide
Your Concise Guide to the Bushwick Art Book and Zine Fair 2016
You may think you want to go to the Rockaways this weekend, but you'll only end up sunburned.
News
British MPs Propose Bill to Return the Elgin Marbles to Greece
With the 200th anniversary this week of the July 11, 1816 purchase through an Act of Parliament of the Parthenon Marbles for the British Museum, members of parliament are introducing a bill that would repatriate the ancient artifacts.
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Artists Start to Build Trump’s Border Wall, Using Anti-Trump Art
The beginnings of a wall with Trump's name on it have emerged along the US-Mexico border, but it is not likely what the presumptive Republican nominee has in mind.
Opinion
This Company "Clones" Masterpieces
Would you like to have a Vermeer or a Caravaggio in your living room above the sofa? Maybe a van Gogh or a Degas painting would be a better match for your drapery and credenza?
Art
An Exhaustive and Exhausting Survey of Martin Creed's Madcap Antics
For decades, the Park Avenue Armory was home largely to order and restraint, serving as the headquarters of the 7th Regiment of the New York Militia. It is now bursting with mayhem.
Art
An Artist Who Possessed a Third Eye
Working in painting, drawing, assemblage, film, photography, photograms, performance, collage, and printmaking, Bruce Conner (1933–2008) made more discrete bodies of work across more mediums than any other postwar artist.