Art
A Geometry of Spatial Illusion
PARIS — Felice Varini’s environmental paintings can only be experienced in architectural space.
Review
Art
A Show that Embraces Failure
MEXICO CITY — “I’ll just keep on ... till I get it right,” croons Tammy Wynette’s melancholy, droning voice to viewers as they enter Mexico City’s LABOR gallery.
Art
The Living History of Jacob Lawrence's 'Migration Series'
I am only one generation removed from the history of African American migrants who, between 1917 and 1970, travelled North seeking economic opportunity, education, and respite from the strictures of Jim Crow South.
Music
Galantis, Intimacy Machine
A cascading synthesizer shimmers as a nondescript female voice starts whispering various stock phrases. The melody builds a little, there’s a brief pause, then the singer becomes a chipmunk and the synthesizers start blocking out the beat.
Art
A Photographer Who Deserves to Be Widely Known
A few weeks ago, while a friend and I were driving to Rockland, Maine, where I was scheduled to give a lecture, we stopped in Portland, because I wanted to see the exhibition Rose Marasco: index at the Portland Museum of Art.
Books
It’s Only Rock’n’Roll, But They Like It: New Books from Robert Christgau and Jessica Hopper
Recently, Time Out New York’s “Word on the Street” column offered this overheard snippet: “She’s never had sex and she doesn’t do drugs but she really loves rock’n’roll.”
Books
The ABC of Art Criticism: Some Recent How To's
It has often been said that writing about art is like dancing about architecture. Nearly as often, it has also then been said: But I’m going to do it anyway.
Art
A Redesign of Chess that Sets Us Up to Lose
In 1924, competitive chess players in Paris founded the World Chess Federation, the first international governing chess organization.
Art
An Abandoned Department Store Stocks Up on Art
TOLEDO, Ohio — Rocco DePietro and Gloria Pritschet characterize the massive group show they curated for Gallery Project, Wish List, as a contemporary statement of cultural desire.
Art
Mourning the Death of Art on the River Styx
PARIS — If you already know that the wizard of entertainment has been swimming in the heart of art, a small boat excursion in the dark sounds more like summertime diversion than enlightening art. And indeed it is.
Performance
A Puppet and a Performer Bring "The Waste Land" to Life
At this year's New York International Fringe Festival, artist Daniel Domig and actor Christopher Domig have collaborated on The Waste Land, an installation in which the latter quixotically plays with objects and rolls around in sawdust while reciting T.S. Eliot's poem of the same name.
Art
When the Whole World Spoke Pop
MINNEAPOLIS — We do not know what we do not know. That is precisely what the Walker Art Center’s exhibition International Pop makes clear — how much, heretofore, we did not know about the scope and practice of Pop art.