Art
Mark Bradford Appropriates Comic Books and Delves Into the Sublime
Bradford's new paintings tell us how much we don’t know.
Hauser & Wirth
Art
Allan Kaprow, Before the Happenings
Considered the Father of the Happening, Kaprow started off as a painter whose work reflected a Cubist-inspired, pre-AbEx aesthetic.
Art
A Poignant Restaging of a 1978 Italian Performance About Fascism
"Europe Bombarded," by Fabio Mauri, draws on the artist's memories of growing up in Fascist Italy.
Art
A Romanian Artist Tackles Art and Freedom in Authoritarian Times
Geta Brătescu's work positions the artist as a creator of freedom even in oppressive times.
Art
Preserving Dieter Roth's Ephemeral Art
There’s a discrepancy between Roth’s relationship with his art — so much of which was never meant to last — and its reception by an art establishment that has canonized the late artist.
Art
Philippe Vandenberg’s Urgent Testimony
At some point in his career, Vandenberg became disgusted with the attention he was getting, and walked away from the work that made him a success.
Art
When Experimental Music Resonated with Abstract Art
The exhibition includes scores by John Cage and Morton Feldman, paintings by Philip Guston, sculpture and works on paper by Louise Bourgeois and David Smith, and oil paintings by Joan Mitchell.
Art
An Absurdist Play About Art-Making at Hauser & Wirth
In Asher Hartman's play Mr. Akita, artist and performer Cliff Hengst discusses the nature of art with a silent Op art painting by Emily Joyce.
Art
Guston After Trump and Before Christmas
I don’t know if laughter is the best medicine: sometimes it is the only medicine.
Art
In Philip Guston's Nixon Drawings, a Tool Kit for Satirizing Loathsome Presidents
Over 170 caricatures of Richard Nixon offer an instructive precedent for artists struggling to overcome political and creative blocks in one leap.
Books
Reader’s Diary: ‘Eva Hesse: Diaries’
An artist’s fame may continue, or even grow, as the actual works on which it is nominally based are lost from sight.
Art
A Weighty Rashid Johnson Show that Doesn't Take Off
The dream embedded in the hymn “I’ll Fly Away” is rest — a cessation of struggle, labor, drudgery.