News
Can Public Art Save New York’s Grittiest Bus Terminal?
Nine contemporary artists have taken over vacant advertising spaces at the aesthetically beleaguered Port Authority.
New York
Art
Asian-American Identity Through Quiet, Ordinary Gestures
Sometimes, exhibitions about identity demand too much of those bearing the identities, expecting them to speak explicitly to their experience.
Art
Nellie Mae Rowe’s Story of Freedom
Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe is brimming with examples of the artist’s imaginative allegorical art.
Art
NYC’s Five Boroughs, Reimagined in Gingerbread
An exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebrates the Big Apple in the most seasonal (and tastiest) medium of all.
Art
Echoes of Joy and Peril in Leda Catunda’s Textiles
The Brazilian artist practices an erasure poetry upon textiles and assembles the results into evocative, semi-sculptural configurations.
Art
Philip Taaffe Digs Deeper Into the Rabbit Hole
It seems Taaffe is looking at the present as an extinction event, and that one purpose of painting is to bequeath some record of history and time to the future.
Art
Xylor Jane’s Cosmic Grids
The rules that structure Jane's paintings take her to some place strange and fascinating, beautiful and perplexing, mind-boggling and riveting.
News
Artadia Increases Artist’s Grants in Response to Inflation
In a rare move, the organization will retroactively pay this year's grant recipients to match the new prize amount.
News
Photography Curator Arrested for Attempted Child Molestation
Efrem Zelony-Mindell faces charges of distribution and possession of child pornography and attempted enticement of a minor.
Review
Pat Steir Accepts Time's Passage With Grace
Steir’s work of the ’90s was the result of physically demanding processes. What happens when you cannot do what you once did?
News
An Unconventional Grant That Lets Artists Pay it Forward
The 15 initial winners of the Art Matters Foundation grant each choose another artist to receive the prize.
Art
You Can’t Coat the Holocaust With Gold
Anselm Kiefer's philosophy has its roots in German Romanticism, particularly the belief that the artist can mediate between the creative and the divine, between earth and heaven.