Art
Exiting the big, steel elevator to enter Doubleworld, the first major survey of Sarah Charlesworth's work currently at the New Museum, one steps into another, double, world and directly into the gallery of Stills: 14 photographs of people jumping or falling from tall buildings.
Art
Elon F. Joseph, a kind, caring and a genuinely good person, passed away.
Art
Poetry has never been more of a hackneyed product — from tiresome MFA hybrid poems to stale derivations of pop/Net conceptualism to the New New New York School, always proclaiming that its linking of art, gay male cosmopolitanism, and poetics is “new.”
Interview
"I do wonder, when I lead complete strangers around on my walks, and take them to sites that don't dredge up some awful racial history so they have no racial referent — I wonder the degree to which they allow themselves to have racial thoughts."
Art
In her Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Austrian novelist Elfriede Jelinek asked, “Is writing the gift of curling up with reality?”
Art
After six years and three installments, is the New Museum’s Triennial entering middle age? An odd question for an exhibition devoted to “early-career artists,” as the museum’s press release describes them.
Art
The New Museum's third triennial, Surround Audience, is not nearly as immersive as its title suggests, and it sabotages many of the most conventional two-dimensional and sculptural works on view.
Art
Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly have brought politicized pole dancing to the New Museum.
Art
Let's face it: there's Brooklyn, and then there's the rest of New York City. (Sorry, rest of New York City!)
Art
A more descriptive subtitle for Chris Ofili: Day and Night, the New Museum's dazzling survey of Chris Offili's paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, would be "Day and Night and Day."
Interview
That vast, often vague, less metropolitan expanse that New Yorkers usually call “Upstate” has been a major force in the evolution of contemporary media art.
Art
I admit to feeling crippled by the New Museum's Here and Elsewhere show. As the first major show of art from the "Arab world" in a New York museum, it stirs a huge well of emotions and frustrations about a topic that needs volumes to unpack.