Art
Witty Mashups Without Meaning
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Jiha Moon’s colorful mixed-media works are in the collections of the Asia Society in New York and the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other US institutions.
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Art
Spring/Break, a Sprawling Alternative Art Fair that Delivers
On Tuesday, at the preview of the Spring/Break Art Show, a writer I know told me she'd been sent there on an assignment to cover the "little" fairs surrounding the Armory Show.
Art
The Products of Forced Labor in US Prisons
What I saw when I stepped from the elevator and entered the hush of the Artists Space gallery was barely anything: a red raincoat on the wall, some honey-colored wood benches that looked as if they belonged in a courtroom, and some odd steel contraptions on the floor.
Art
Finding Jesus, "YOUR MOM," and Other Surprises at the 2016 Armory Show
The 2016 edition of the Armory Show art fair opens to the public tomorrow, but already during today's preview piers 92 and 94 were crawling with collectors, curators, and critics.
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The Architect Who Melded Tradition and Modernism in New York’s Chinatown
The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) has created a wonderfully dense retrospective of Poy Gum Lee, a Chinatown native whose buildings still stand in Shanghai and New York City.
Books
Plumage of the Saints: Aztec Feather Art in the Age of Colonialism
In a 16th-century triptych of the crucifixion at the Musée National de la Renaissance, north of Paris, Christ has wings. In fact the whole piece is made of feathers.
Art
The Aesthetic Allure of Books Without Pages
Books exist as receptacles of information, but for many years people have adopted their format and appearance to create other objects or containers for an array of items.
Art
Walk the Eight Blocks from the Met to the Met Breuer, Accompanied by Soundscapes
John Luther Adams's "Soundwalk 9:09" is a composition that's only complete once you listen to it on the noisy New York City streets.
Books
The Beauty of Moldy Photos
For most archivists, finding mold among collections represents the beginning of one's worst nightmares.
Art
Marcel Broodthaers's Fraught Relationship with Words
Do words limit our experience of a given artwork?
Art
The Photographed, Collaged, and Painted Muses of Mickalene Thomas
New Jersey-born, Brooklyn-based artist Mickalene Thomas is best known for her richly textured, rhinestone-encrusted paintings of African-American women and bright, collaged interiors. Lesser known is her photography, which she’s long considered a crucial component of her art practice.
Art
The Metropolitan Museum Is Still Very Eurocentric and Conservative
If you thought the Eurocentric gods may have been toppled from their comfortable perches at the top of Mt. Met, you'll be sorely disappointed.