Art
Henry Gunderson first made waves in his hometown of San Francisco a couple years ago with eccentric, surreal paintings of humanoid animals that I recall often stumbling upon on various image-sharing websites.
Art
LISBON — Asian shadow theater is catnip for those with energetic imaginations.
Art
PARIS — It was nearly 2am and I was watching snow fall on the abandoned railroad tracks of the Petite Ceinture.
Art
DETROIT — These days Detroit is a hotbed of craft-based forms revisited.
Art
PARIS — Take Me (I'm Yours) at the Monnaie de Paris revives and expands a 1995 exhibition curated by Christian Boltanski and Hans-Ulrich Obrist at London's Serpentine Gallery, in which all the art is designed to be touched and taken away.
Books
A swansong for the millennium has just been written and none too soon; or rather, an evensong for late capitalism’s annihilation.
Art
McArthur Binion’s exhibition, Re: Mine, currently at Galerie Lelong stirred up a swarm of associations while I was looking at it, and the buzz did not die down after I left the gallery and decided to walk home amidst the late afternoon din of Manhattan traffic and people in a rush to get home.
Books
One of the minor ironies of the postwar avant-garde is that an artist so resolutely against personal expression and the myth of the inspired genius should become the focus of a cult of personality.
Film
Asif Kapadia’s documentary Amy reconstructs the late singer, Amy Winehouse, by giving the viewer the full story, Amy’s entire life from girlhood until her death.
Art
William Buchina’s disquieting, enigmatic, and prodigiously complex paintings are one artist’s answer to the relentless media barrage that defines our visual culture, counteracting its torrent of images with a seemingly inexhaustible barrage of his own.
Art
At last month's London Design Festival, six projects considered how Twitter might enable interactions beyond verbal communication.
Art
DETROIT — Intimacy is often falsely billed as romantic.