Art
Hidden Art in a Chinatown Massage Parlor Subtly Confronts China's Imbalances
Something is amiss and slightly menacing in one of Manhattan's numerous Chinatown massage parlors.
Review
Art
Dancing Among the Dead
“If you want to survive the 19th century,” Allison Meier wryly observed, “don't get on a boat or go to the theater.” Meier, who has been giving tours of cemeteries in New York City since 2011 (and is a Hyperallergic staff writer), held aloft a lantern illuminating the granite obelisk marking the mas
Performance
Machismo Ain't Just for Boys Anymore
PORTLAND, Oregon — "Macho doesn't prove mucho," socialite and actress Zsa Zsa Gabor once punned.
Books
The Sacrificial Glory of the Soviet Space Dogs
As companions in our centuries of wandering and settling, dogs have given their loyalty blindly, in both good and bad, as sacrifices to animal testing, as scouts to survivors on battlefields, as guardians to sleep by the door at night.
Art
Revisiting Steve McQueen's Early Work
LOS ANGELES — In a city whose name is synonymous with the motion picture industry, it's common for the worlds of film and art to collide. It's less common, however, for them to collide in a way that's critical and not simply flirting with the idea of celebrity.
Art
A Postal Approach to Abstraction
CHICAGO — Jordan Scott makes pictures by collaging thousands of vintage postage stamps onto panel and canvas and coating the surface in resin.
Art
Exhuming the Artistic Afterlife from One of NYC's Historic Cemeteries
Up in the Bronx, at the end of the line of the 4 train, is a "remarkable museum of American funerary art," as the wall text for Sylvan Cemetery: Architecture, Art and Landscape at Woodlawn at Columbia University's Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery puts it.
Art
James Bishop’s Incommodious Beauty
I have been waiting to see a large selection of James Bishop’s paintings since the mid-1970s, ever since reading John Ashbery’s appraisal in a secondhand copy of Art News Annual 1966.
Art
In Transit: Willem van Genk's Cardboard Trolleys
The first United States exhibition of Dutch artist Willem van Genk’s work at the American Folk Art Museum offers a comic counterpoint to the recent Futurist show at the Guggenheim.
Art
Blood and Soil: Vienna Actionism’s Dangerous Game
Its Wikipedia entry calls it “a short and violent movement,” and even compared with the aesthetic extremes of the 1960s, the unrelenting art of Vienna Actionism stands apart. After the passage of fifty years, the questions it raised about the limits and origins of art remain no less troubling or clo
Performance
Investing in Immersive Theater on Governors Island
Set against the economic optimism and then despair of a family-owned paper company going public, Trade Practices, presented by HERE on Governors Island, asks audience members to invest in its story lines. The immersive theater production that kicked off on Labor Day Weekend stages the experience aro
Art
Pawel Althamer's Family Secrets
BERLIN — Here in northern Europe the leaves are turning colors at an alarming rate. In the US, Labor Day came and went. But in Greece it’s still summer-summer — meaning there’s still time to visit the island of Hydra and see Polish artist Pawel Althamer’s rather anti-spectacular exhibition at the De