Art
Drawing as Refuge
Pete Schulte's drawings at first seem to be easily apprehended and quickly digested, but they demand a deeper reflection on choices and motives.
New York
Art
A Truly Rebellious Artist
Is Joanne Greenbaum making fun of collectors’ tastes, or is she enlarging the definition of art? The fact that you cannot tell is what is so great about her work.
Art
Matthew Wong: Kind of Blue
It seems that Wong was in touch with his deepest feelings and they came through in all of his art; this is what makes him special.
In Brief
Lincoln Center Scraps Richard Lippold’s Chandelier Sculpture in $550M Renovation Plans
Preservationists have voiced their concerns about eliminating Lippold's “Orpheus and Apollo,” one of the original pieces of public artworks at Lincoln Center, installed in 1962.
Film
How Martin Scorsese Seeks Revelation in Documentary
Film Forum's new series Scorsese Nonfiction brings an under-discussed facet of the director's career into focus.
Film
A Showcase of Boundary-Crossing Brazilian Cinema
Kicking off today at Film at Lincoln Center, the series presents a body of work that’s particularly heartening when one considers the encroachments on freedom that Brazilian cinema must now confront.
Film
"DIY or Die": Brooklynites Face the Apocalypse in Empty Metal
We might think of Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer's latest as a cyborg film — both its subject matter and formal approach depend on unifying across difference, a fuck-you to essentialized binaries.
Art
Hands Down, This 89-Year-Old Collector Has the Coolest Apartment in NYC
From Bruce Nauman to Do-Ho Suh sculptures, Henry Buhl’s SoHo loft is decorated entirely with artworks about one thing: hands.
Announcement
Hunter College Presents Part II of the Fall 2019 Thesis Exhibition
laissez faire et laissez passer structures itself as a self-conscious strike-out and strike-through — an attempt to erode a compromised structure while ineluctably reproducing it. On view from December 12 to January 4, 2020.
Art
Baseera Khan's Vivid, Anti-Imperialist Odes
snake skin is a corporeal study of the body politic, in which Khan wields the tools of cultural autopsy in her dissections of ancient ruins and traditions.
Art
The Cosmological Musings of Michael West, an American Abstract Expressionist
The artist, born Corinne Michelle West, is among the forgotten women of the postwar era, who rarely adhered to one style.
Announcement
Apply to SVA’s MFA in Art Writing for Fall 2020
From its inception, the SVA Art Writing program has had a special emphasis on the history and future of the image.