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.
New Museum
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.
Art
Weaving Together Current Events, with a Touch of Fantasy
Here we are, it’s June — exam time. A prompt from the art history final: “Discuss an example of a ‘history painting’ that depicted current events. What would ‘history painting’ look like in the present?”
Art
Finding Love and Community in Nicole Eisenman's Paintings
One thing that is immediately apparent in Al-Ugh-Ories, Nicole Eisenman's show at the New Museum, is her streak of resistance.
Art
The Dicks We Grope to Get Ahead
A rock-climbing wall is covered with penises at the New Museum.