Art
At a Concert, Floating Through Outer Space in Virtual Reality
On Saturday night, some 6,000 people gathered on the Prospect Park Bandshell’s grassy knoll and waited to be beamed up into space.
Review
Art
'Women of Abstract Expressionism’ Challenges the Canon But Is Only the Beginning
DENVER — The story goes like this. It is 1950. Virginia born painter Judith Godwin learns that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham will be in the region and all Godwin can think about is her desire for Graham to perform in Staunton at the all women’s school she attended, Mary Baldwin College.
Art
Between Fantasy and Realism, Bo Bartlett Unmoors His Visions from the Everyday
On the same block where Bo Bartlett’s first solo exhibition in New York opened 35 years ago, Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe is giving audiences a sneak peek into the much anticipated Bo Bartlett Center, set to open in Columbus, Georgia next fall.
Art
A Performance Evening of Uninspired Rituals
I first encountered the Silver Spiders in the rain.
Art
Stroll Through the Color and Light of an American Impressionist's Garden
As artists like Georges Seurat and Claude Monet were capturing the refinement of European gardens in quick brushstrokes, so did American Impressionists like Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase turn to the cultivated landscapes around them for inspiration.
Art
Digital Colonialism and the Marginalization of Australia's Indigenous Peoples
LONDON — Inside Furtherfield Gallery, one is confronted by the noxious fruits of British colonialism.
Art
The Art of Fallen Cities
BOSTON, MASS. — Having grown up on the Great Plains, the first ruin of the Romantic variety I remember encountering was the shell of the Rock of Cashel in Ireland.
Books
Reader’s Diary: Max Stirner's ‘The Ego and His Own’
In a recent long, too long, much too long article in the London Review of Books, Andrew O’Hagan quoted John Lanchester paraphrasing dear old Edmund Wilson to the effect that poets feel differences among themselves as tantamount to lying.
Art
Encounter with a Gazillion Teddy Bears
Partners (The Teddy Bear Project) is the centerpiece – one might say the heart of — The Keeper, organized by Massimiliano Gioni, with Margot Norton, and Natalie Bell and Helga Christoffersen for the New Museum.
Art
Impure and Arcane
One of the interesting things about Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) is that neither she nor her work can be written into the early history of abstract art.
Art
A Poet’s Paintings, In and Out of the Void
“I never wanted to be a poet,” says the famously prolific poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in “More Light,” an autobiographical essay about his first ambitions as a painter.
Art
Danny Lyon's Prescient Visions
“We are frail flowers in the field,” wrote Danny Lyon, the politically active, compassionate photojournalist, after leaving New York for Bernalillo, New Mexico, in 1969.