Opinion
How the New Bowery Wall Commission Puts Rape Culture on Display
The latest artist commissioned to paint the influential Soho wall is a man who has bragged about his predatory sexual behavior.
Keith Haring
Art
A Decade of New York City Art and Disco in 10 Tracks
Recent books by Tim Lawrence and Douglas Crimp underline the close relationship between the New York art scene of the 1970s and '80s and that most unjustly maligned of musical movements, disco.
Art
Longing for Keith Haring’s Lighthearted Penises
It may seem unusual to uphold a book of penis drawings as a significant art-historical moment, but Manhattan Penis Drawings for Ken Hicks creates an unignorable link between Haring’s early work and his homosexuality.
Art
Keith Haring Envisions Manhattan as a Kingdom of Penises
Manhattan is full of dicks. Keith Haring, perhaps the most famous 1980s pop and graffiti artist to come out of New York’s downtown scene, knew this well.
Art
A Guide to New York City's Historic Artist Studios
In New York City's constantly changing urban landscape, artist studios can be ephemeral.
Art
Art that Acknowledges Death Without Showing the Body
Every autumn in New York, leaves fall, grass turns brittle, and people are reminded of death.
Art
Keith Haring in Corn, and Other Artistic Thanksgiving Plates
This Thanksgiving, up your plating game and with some artist-inspired dishes courtesy of San Francisco-based artist Hannah Rothstein.
Art
Trump’s Menstrala Art Moment: A Short History of Election Art
In certain parlors, the mixing of art and politics is considered vulgar. If so, then vulgarity reigns supreme in the memory of recent presidential elections.
Art
How a Queer Asian Artist Infiltrated the New York Scene Through Dress-Up and Self-Portraiture
As an Asian boy growing up middle-class in America, I was taught assimilation was key.
Art
A Universe of Drawing, Rolled into a Single Room
Ten years ago, the Morgan Library & Museum decided it was time to bring its collection up to speed on the art of drawing in the 20th and 21st centuries — a daunting task in itself, and even more improbable in the face of a superheated, late-capitalist art market: at the feast of the trophy-eaters, w
Art
Keith Haring and the Artist as Witness
SAN FRANCISCO — At the end of the 2012 documentary How to Survive a Plague, we see a group of ACT UP protestors march on the nation’s capital with the ashes of their dead, a counterprotest to the exhibition of the AIDS Quilt on the Washington Mall.
Art
At New York's LGBT Center, a Renovation Pushes Art to the Fore
On Tuesday the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center (LGBT Center) in New York's Greenwich Village offered a sneak peek at its nearly complete $9.2 million renovation, which, among other things, aims to showcase the exceptional art sprinkled throughout the building.