Art
A 19th-Century Paper Mill Transformed into a Space for Art
PLAINWELL, Mich. — In Sarah Lindley's current installation at the historic Plainwell Paper Mill Company in southwestern Michigan, she traces the watershed of the Kalamazoo River.
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Art
A Sculptural Sequel for Blockbuster Movie Miniatures
The Swiss Institute's basement gallery space looks like the set for an avant-garde science fiction movie right now.
Art
The Digital Lives of Public Art Considered in City Hall Park
Digital artifacts manifested as public sculpture populate the Public Art Fund’s Image Objects in Lower Manhattan's City Hall Park.
Books
Riding Backwards to See What You Missed
In his introduction to Clarence Major’s new poetry collection From Now On, Yusef Komunyakaa hints, even if he does not directly state, that there is a kind of natural quietude about Major’s work.
Art
Stanley Whitney in the 1990s
Years ago I saw a drawing in a modest exhibition at the Centre Pompidou that Picasso made on a sheet of stiff cardboard while he was on a picnic with his friends, Michel and Louise Leiris. Not one to waste space, Picasso divided the surface into a grid, and in each small square he made a quick conto
Books
“We Need a New Skin Color”: The Racial Imagination of Dada
The centenary of Dada is almost upon us. If the movement had an identifiable beginning, it was certainly at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich in 1916, where Richard Huelsenbeck, Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, Hans Arp and others gathered for events that have come down to us in d
Books
Agnes Martin: In Two New Books, A Life Revealed
How does one begin to tell — or unravel — the story of Agnes Martin (1912–2004), one of modern art’s most original and self-effacing artists, especially when so many aspects of her personal history are shrouded in mystery, misinformation, myth and misunderstanding?
Art
Staring Back: 400 Years of Portraits at the Morgan
Life Lines: Portrait Drawings from Dürer to Picasso at the Morgan Library & Museum may not venture very far beyond canonical European artists, but it uncovers richness and diversity within a circumscribed field, especially in the work of its two anchors, Albrecht Dürer and Pablo Picasso.
Performance
David Byrne's Avant-Color Guard
If you’ve ever been to a high school or college football game, chances are you’ve seen a color guard.
Art
The Urge to Reach Out and Touch Beyond the Screen
CHICAGO — A flat description of Miami-based artist Jillian Mayer’s work— such as you might find in wall texts or press releases — reads like it’s culled from the syllabus of an Interactive Arts & Media graduate class.
Performance
Summoning the Spirit of Frida Kahlo Through a Pre-Columbian Ritual
LONDON — As the centerpiece of this year’s Greenwich + Docklands International Festival (GDF) in London, artistic director Bradley Hemmings has created an outdoor theater production called "The Four Fridas," inspired by the life and work of legendary Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.
Art
Sex Is Both Rude and Sweet in an Italian Modernist’s Oeuvre
PARIS — The work of Carol Rama has a powerful belligerence about it.