Art
A Fictional Childhood, Filmed in Real Time
The big bet pays off in Boyhood, much like the risks of early life: making friends, changing the way we think and look, the things we do.
Review
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Curating the Mind of John Altoon
LOS ANGELES — In John Altoon's current retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, curator Carol S. Eliel organizes a view of this Los Angeles artist's work that spans from his early beginnings in art — heavy strokes of more Cubist-type work — to his delicate, sexually charged ink and wat
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The Unstable Art of Pattern Recognition
Fixed Unknowns, the current exhibition on the upper level of Taymour Grahne Gallery, breeds constant questioning of the image before the eyes.
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The Values of Louise Lawler
At the core of artist Louise Lawler's work is the question of place, by which I don't mean simply a notion of geography, but also hierarchies.
Books
Cuba, Then and Now, in Pictures and Words
LONDON — On display in a vitrine at the Victoria and Albert Museum here is a large, black-and-white photo-print depicting the suit of armor Christopher Columbus wore during his journeys to what Europeans came to call “the New World.”
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Single Point Perspective: Regina Bogat’s Earthly Divination
Regina Bogat: Works 1967-1977 at Zürcher Gallery marks another milestone in the rediscovery of an artist who has long been hidden in plain sight. Since her start in the 1950s, in a milieu that included abstract artists like Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt and her late husband, Al Jensen, Bogat has always
Music
Fagen's Critical Catalogue (July 2014, Part 1)
In part 1 of this month, reviews of Celtic Woman, The Fault in Our Stars, The Rough Guide to Indian Classical Music, and Deadmau5.
Art
Story Lines: “The Intuitionists” at the Drawing Center
Simultaneously confounding and illuminating, The Intuitionists at the Drawing Center is a puzzle within a puzzle, a conceptual stunt that raises sticky questions about curatorial responsibility and the structuring of aesthetic experience.
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Stretching the Truth of Photography
Photography’s initial accomplishment was to allow for the instantaneous transformation of a four-dimensional object or event into a static, two-dimensional representation. However, in the catalogue for the 1970 exhibition Photography into Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, Peter C. Burnell insis
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Drugs, Guns, Photographs: Taking Shots with William S. Burroughs
Writer William S. Burroughs took thousands of photographs from the 1950s to 1970s, but it's likely you've not seen many as even he didn't treat them like an art, but a mode of disrupting time.
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The Existential Adventures of a Daredevil Escape Artist
Years before NYC-based artist and writer Paul Pope was garnering Eisner Awards for an intricate, boundary-challenging Batman series, he was making a name for himself working at a Japanese comics publisher. At night, however, Pope was crafting the story of how a circus’s sinewy escape artist earns hi
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Cinema as a Ruin in Madrid
MADRID — The moving image, now at the center stage of contemporary art, not only as video and film but as ‘artists’ cinema,’ was once a fringe movement at a time when recorded tapes were difficult to manipulate and even more difficult to preserve so that many of those early works are now irretrievab