Art
Seeing Through Oscar Wilde's Dandy Façade
An exhibition in Paris explores the Irish wit's literary exploits, aesthetic tastes, and friendships with artists.
Reviews
Art
The Disturbingly Relevant Art of the Moscow Conceptualists
The political and cultural lethargy of the late Soviet Union gave rise to the Moscow Conceptualists, whose work today offers unexpected insights for our tempestuous times.
Art
Iris van Herpen Makes a Case for Fashion as a Fine Art
Dutch designer Iris van Herpen stands out in a field that is fast-moving and codified, and where true innovation is difficult to master.
Art
The Challenge of Making a Permanent Exhibit About Mercurial New York
The Museum of the City of New York opens its first permanent exhibition, an ambitious multimedia journey through 400 years of the city's turbulent history.
Art
The Distracting Whimsy of Nick Cave's Sculptural Field
The decorative alchemy that should transform these objects into a stronger form of messaging falls flat.
Art
The Masterful, Unsettling Work of a Female Cuban Printmaker
UCLA's Fowler Museum has organized the first solo museum show in the US for Belkis Ayón, a black Cuban artist who was a master of collography.
Art
How General Idea Got Specific to Confront the AIDS Crisis
A retrospective in Mexico City traces the Canadian trio's evolution from Fluxus-inflected performance directives to twists on commercial objects and images directly addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Art
An Exhibition of Sea Creatures and Beach Gear Treads Water
Cosima von Bonin's exhibition at SculptureCenter features many splashy, maritime-themed works, but their cumulative effect lacks much depth.
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The Chameleonic Cate Blanchett Brings 20th-Century Art Manifestos to Life
In the 13-screen video installation Manifesto, Cate Blanchett plays sharply different characters while reading polemical 20th-century manifestos. Her transformation is astonishing.
Books
A History of Chinese Photobooks
A publication released by Aperture offers a subjective overview of photobooks from China, from the 1900s to today.
Books
Reader’s Diary: Caetano Veloso’s ‘Tropical Truth’
Caetano Veloso is an aesthete, not a man of politics, but the times and his conscience lent a political valence to his aesthetic choices.
Art
With an Eye to Our Common Future
Some painters — following in the footsteps of Arthur Dove — offer us received images of transcendence. John Dilg isn’t one of them.