Art
The Strange Eroticism of Fishermen Caressing Dying Fish
Jonathas de Andrade's short film "O Peixe" mimics the style of anthropological documentaries to capture a made-up fishing custom in northeast Brazil.
New Museum
Art
Living in Raymond Pettibon’s America
We seem to finally be catching up to what the artist has been saying through his work all along — that things are bad, and they always have been.
Art
A Death Labyrinth, a Steampunk Space Club, and More in the New Museum's First VR Exhibition
From a watery remix of Call of Duty to an elegiac star system commemorating victims of police brutality, the online-only exhibition's six VR works showcase a range of possible worlds.
Art
Death Wish: Raymond Pettibon at the New Museum
Pettibon’s real subject is not the hypocrisy, mendacity, and stupidity of political leaders, but the Thanatos-driven impulses that compel us to empower those leaders in the first place.
Art
Best of 2016: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
This list barely scratches the surface of the city's artistic offerings this year, from overdue retrospectives to surprising sides of artists we know well.
Art
The Extravagant Intimacy of Pipilotti Rist
The New Museum seems to have taken it upon itself to produce spectacles that are as moving as they are eye-filling. Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest is something else again.
Art
Reflections from Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter
"We were a congregation of red-beaded necklace adorners, velveteen ushers, rattlers, and clenched-fist praise dancers."
Art
Preserving the Stories Behind Painstakingly Compiled Collections
To most people, fossilized candy, hairballs, and animal bones belong in the trash, but for Yuji Agematsu, such detritus deserves preservation for posterity.
Opinion
Black Women Artists Bear Witness in Red
First you see red. Red halts the traffic. An undulant corpus of red women crosses the Bowery and flows toward the New Museum, breaks into an arc and then a circle
Art
The Other Side of History
One of the fascinating things about The Keeper, organized by Massimiliano Gioni, with Margot Norton, Natalie Bell, and Helga Christoffersen for the New Museum, is the sheer number of distinct collections they managed to include in a space that is not particularly hospitable to art.
Art
Encounter with a Gazillion Teddy Bears
Partners (The Teddy Bear Project) is the centerpiece – one might say the heart of — The Keeper, organized by Massimiliano Gioni, with Margot Norton, and Natalie Bell and Helga Christoffersen for the New Museum.
Art
Impure and Arcane
One of the interesting things about Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) is that neither she nor her work can be written into the early history of abstract art.