Books
Alice Notley's Crystal City of In-betweenness
Alice Notley's recent book, Benediction, an epic written in ragged grammatical form, further concretizes her work to repossess the historically male-dominated epic poem as a feminist genre.
Review
Art
Archaic Futurism
In an interview that appeared in The Brooklyn Rail (May 2014), Joyce Robins explained that the title of her early painting “The Vly” (1975) is the Dutch word for swamp.
Art
Vanity, Thy Name Is Man
CHICAGO — I was hooked by the time I finished reading “Mr. John F. Kennedy and Mr. Kenneth Noland” (2016), a text-filled drawing written in pencil in large and distinct capital letters that reminded me of penmanship practice in elementary school.
Art
“Vulnerability Could Be the New Stoic”: Paintings by Allison Schulnik
In Allison Schulnik’s hands, paint becomes matter and subject becomes object. Her paintings are about a continual state of flux: morphing, dripping, and melting.
Film
A Véritéble Weekend of Cinéma: A Film Festival in Maine
It is not surprising that the art crowd is at home on Maine’s coastline, where Hartley and Homer filled their canvases with crashing tides, and where Longfellow filled his mind’s chalice with classic verse, but I am compelled to wonder about what (if any) Maine connection has been forged by the docu
Art
The How Is the What: The Essential Harry Leigh
Since the early 1970s, Harry Leigh has been producing distinctive, elegant, deceptively simple wall-based sculptures, mainly of wood.
Art
Surrendering to the Women of Vienna
The uncannily contemporary aspect of Gustav Klimt’s painting is that it was always in flux.
Books
The Contemporary Geoglyphs of a Globe-Spanning Art Project
Since 1999, Australian artist Andrew Rogers has traveled the seven continents creating modern geoglyphs with local populations, representing symbols significant to the area's culture with indigenous stone.
Art
Colorful Canvases that Transform Worn-Out Clichés
LOS ANGELES — Glenn Goldberg seizes worn-out clichés that would seem unable to support weight and uses them to unexpectedly launch himself into painting.
Art
At Tate Modern, an Attempt to Free Georgia O’Keeffe’s Art from an Erotic Interpretation
LONDON — The opening of Tate Modern on London’s South Bank in 2000 changed the landscape of contemporary art in Britain.
Books
Exploring New York City's Silent Shores
The 600 miles of New York City's shoreline that secured its status as a center of trade in the 18th century now host some of its more forgotten spaces.
Art
Jean Tinguely's Clanging, Banging Machine Sculptures
PARIS — The crepuscular imbroglio at work in Jean Tinguely’s historic machine sculptures, currently on view at Galerie Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois, is very much of the present moment.