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.
New York
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.
News
PAIN Sackler Storms Guggenheim and Metropolitan Museums for Financial Ties to Opioid Manufacturers
The drug policy advocates, led by photographer Nan Goldin, held a covert die-in at the Guggenheim, then marching to the Met to publicly protest on its steps.
Art
Ancient Tools for a New Way of Seeing
This is what very good artists are supposed to do: use the past to bring about the present — in David Rabinowitch’s case, a visionary one.
Art
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Explores Psychological Depths
The painter's introspective subjects can make the viewer feel uncomfortably voyeuristic.
Art
Jim Osman’s Off-Kilter Arcadia
Osman's suite of new sculptures might look like buildings, or the things within buildings: furniture, toyish tools, and strange-ified objects of interior design.
Announcement
Apply Now for the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program
The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program is currently accepting applications for its 2019–2020 residency period. Applications are due Friday, February 15.