Music
David Bowie was a legendary art hero, a hot tramp and an honorary young American and a true somebody person. He was a gifted actor who injected every role he played with flamboyant electricity, and he was always playing a role.
Music
Arca is a pseudonym for Alejandro Ghersi, a Venezuelan DJ/producer based in New York. He specializes in eerie, glitchy, electronic instrumentals that confound ordinary electronica categories.
Performance
The whirlwind of performances accompanying the annual convention of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters in New York has come to a close, with PS122's COIL, the Public Theater's Under the Radar, HERE's Prototype, Abrons Arts Center's American Realness and other festivals wrapping up last Su
Art
To be clear, Jeff Schwarz doesn’t use paint on his ceramic paintings. The marks, swipes, smears and sprays across his surprisingly versatile surfaces are created entirely with glaze, slip and clay.
Books
When the Globe Theatre along London's River Thames opened in 1599, a flag depicting Hercules hoisting a globe announced the opening of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Books
The 16th-century "Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn" by Raphael was altered twice: first by the artist, who replaced a lap dog with a tiny unicorn; then in the 17th century, when the sitter's bare shoulders were covered and the broken martyrdom wheel of St. Catherine of Alexandria was painted over t
Books
Los Alamos Rolodex: Doing Business with the National Lab, a new book by the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), is a tight little publication with a singular fascination.
Art
A note of hysteria begins to creep into Walid Raad’s voice as he concludes his hour-long monologue performance, "Scratching on things I could disavow: Walkthrough," at the Museum of Modern Art.
Art
Now in its 24th edition, the Outsider Art Fair has found a new home this year at the Metropolitan Pavilion, currently filled with the fair's largest number of exhibitors yet.
Books
The ornamentation of medieval churches is often associated with the elite, but carved right into the structure of the building are less visible traces of the lower and middle class: graffiti.
Art
LOS ANGELES — The story of Yokosuka, as told by photographer Ishiuchi Miyako, takes place in lonely, foreboding streets, where the miracle of Japan’s postwar economy seems to not have shaken off the grit and grime of history.
Art
PARIS — Wifredo Lam’s hot, hybrid style is essentially spiky.