Art
Jasper Johns’s Messengers of Aging and Mortality
In these works, we are looking at a merging of organization and dissipation, an image of our destiny.
New York
Art
Leonor Fini’s Erotic Theater
Fini’s art disarmed male authority and dissolved gender norms, with delicate, nude men attended by sumptuously dressed, leonine females.
Art
Black as a Sensory Experience
In PURE, VERY, NEW, Paul Stephen Benjamin's conceptual art pushes the boundaries of the color black and offers new experiences of sound, vision, and light.
Art
A Doll’s House that Verges on Being Livable
What kind of house is this, that ping pongs between two- and three-dimensional representations that are merely fantasy or merely decorative and pieces that have clear utilitarian use?
Announcement
Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For on View at Americas Society
The exhibition is curated by Miguel A. López (TEOR/éTica and Lado V, San José, Costa Rica). On view through May 4, 2019.
News
Art Dealer Mary Boone Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison
In September, the gallerist pled guilty to two counts of filing a false federal income tax return, hiding $3.7 million in company profits from the government.
Art
The Past Pushes Forward in an Exhibition About Memory
The drawings, paintings, and videos in Place/Image/Object assert that the act of remembering is work that carries consequences.
Film
A Biographical, Fragmentary Film Is Also the Last for a Filmmaking Couple
Completed by Yervant Gianikian after the death of his partner, Ricci Lucchi, Angela’s Diaries – Two Filmmakers, collages the couple’s meticulous documentation of their lives, work, and travels.
Announcement
SculptureCenter Presents Banu Cennetoğlu and In Practice: Other Objects
Cennetoğlu’s first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. is on view alongside a group exhibition presented through SculptureCenter’s open call commissioning program.
Books
Gary Indiana's Helter-Skelter Prose Experiments
In the 1980s I religiously read Indiana's weekly, polemical Voice dispatches in which he described the ills of US society from the point of view of an energetic, radical, gay critic absent art bona fides.
Art
College Art Association Conference Lands in New York City This Week
With 300 sessions over the course of four days, the largest gathering of art historians in North America will convene in New York City February 13–16
Announcement
SVA MA Curatorial Practice's Major Year-End Exhibitions for Spring 2019
Five exhibitions and one symposium telling stories on undocumented immigrants, expression and censorship, queer artists and the AIDS crisis, the armed conflict in Columbia, the abstraction of language, and party-as-platform to transfer knowledge between bodies and environments.