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."
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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.
News
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.
Books
Square Deal: Anselm Berrigan’s 'Come In Alone'
The formal inventiveness of this new volume by Anselm Berrigan is satisfying and maddening.
Books
The Strange Allure of Craigslist Mirrors
Everyone knows Craigslist is rife with the weird and the wild, but since 2013, Brooklyn-based artist Eric Oglander has been combing the online marketplace for one quotidian object: the mirror.
In Brief
New Online Museum Gathers All of Prince’s Websites in 1 Place
What if, instead of being a hellhole filled with trolls and bad news, the internet offered "the definitive place of gathering 4 all who love life, love God, lovesexy ... a new collective mindstate of unity, love and truth so great every human will want 2 join?"
Art
From a Missing Woman to an Overpowering Odor, Adventures from London's First Art Night
LONDON — “Have you seen Betty? She has big boobs! She has disappeared!”
Opinion
"A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday" Flag Goes Up in New York City
This week, we've witnessed another onslaught of senseless killings of Black people by police in the United States.