Art
A Once Shattered Statue Is Now Part of a Theatrical Experiment at the Metropolitan Museum
How many times is a sculpture sculpted?
Review
Art
Painting the Nocturnal Journeys of Solitary Travelers
The remote location of the sparse gallery space makes it seem as though the paintings were found interred, long unseen.
Art
From Climate Change to Race Relations, Artists Respond to Richmond, Virginia
New Dominion, a group show at Mixed Greens, brings together the work of eight artists living and working in Richmond, Virginia.
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Elmer Bischoff’s Haunting Figurative Paintings
The curator and art historian Susan Landauer met Elmer Bischoff in 1985, while she was a graduate student at Yale, and this encounter helped lead to her first book: The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism (1996).
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Vantage Points: Three Works at Socrates Sculpture Park
With “Living Pyramid” (2015), Agnes Denes's first large-scale public sculpture in New York City since she planted and harvested an amber field in the Battery Park Landfill (“Wheatfield - A Confrontation," 1982), the artist merges botanicals with her interest in mathematics.
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The Other Side of Portraiture
It may be a stretch to say that portraiture is in the air — given that there are all of two exhibitions devoted to it in New York City right now, one in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn — but their confluence can feel like the kind of Marxian (Groucho, not Karl) charge you get from watching a tradition
Books
Tracing Devendra Banhart's Visual and Musical Sensibility Through Drawing
While Devendra Banhart was making his folk-rock music, he was also producing a large body of visual art that for the first time is brought together in book form.
Art
Queering Contemporary Portraiture with 19th-Century Photo Techniques
Robyn Renee Hasty is an artist who is drawn to the challenges presented by obsolete technologies.
Performance
Confronting Our Apathy Anew with Samuel Beckett
On paper, Happy Days looks pretty unappealing.
Art
A Poetic Response to Kim Gordon’s Art Using Only Sonic Youth Lyrics
Editor's note: Kim Gordon, one of the co-founders of the indie rock band Sonic Youth, currently has an art exhibition on view at 303 Gallery. The following is a response to the show composed entirely of lyrics from Sonic Youth’s influential 1988 album, Daydream Nation.
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Every Five Years, Ragnar Kjartansson Asks His Mother to Spit on Him
REYKJAVÍK, Iceland — “I was told to spit on my own beloved son over and over ... Everything went according to plan — I spat and spat,” so goes the essay for Ragnar Kjartansson’s exhibition Me and My Mother.
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The Little-Known Engineer Who Made the First Abstract Paintings in the US
MUSKEGON, Mich. — What’s especially significant about Manierre Dawson is that he made his breakthrough to non-objective imagery prior to any exposure to modernist art.