Art
Celebrating Photographers of Color and the Collectives That Have Nurtured Them
"And who else is there?" A staff member at a well-known photo festival and I were nearing the end of an awkward conversation.
Reviews
Art
Reviewing the Responses to MoMA's Divisive Painting Survey
As news of art fairs and Bjork took the spotlight earlier this month, I lingered on the Museum of Modern Art’s The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, up through early April.
Performance
A Mashup of Ballet and Postmodern Dance
Dance is a curious thing: an art form that both defies and relies on genre distinctions.
Art
A Rubens Exhibition That's All Fat, No Muscle
LONDON — The term “blockbuster” is defined by the equation: major name or subject + major loans = major ticket sales.
Books
A Heartbreaking Archive of Missing Pet Posters
Taped around telephone poles and pinned to message boards, the homemade missing pet poster is an enduring form of public communication in an era when just about every other type of transmission is going digital.
Art
A Simplistic Survey of Protest Art
Zero Tolerance at MoMA PS1 tackles an ambitiously broad subject: the intersection between protest and art.
Art
Donatello's Florence Cathedral Sculptures Cross the Atlantic for the First Time
Sculpture in the Age of Donatello: Renaissance Masterpieces from Florence Cathedral is an improbable exhibition, with 23 early Renaissance pieces that have rarely (if ever) left Italy, let alone crossed the Atlantic to arrive at this small Upper West Side museum.
Art
Mankind's Mess, Subsumed by Beautiful Landscapes
In the middle of the night, photographer Simon Norfolk dips a garden rake, wrapped in shaggy white carpet — a makeshift wick — into petroleum and sets it on fire.
Art
A Painter's Reflective (and Reflected) Photographic Portraits
PARIS — The use of mirrors in art has been a rich one, used by Pop, Kinetic, Minimal, and Conceptual artists. In this long tradition, the Jeu de Paume currently offers an additional point of reference.
Art
Photographing the Destructive Isolation of a US Military Base in Afghanistan
LONDON — The documentary Restrepo (2010) opens with a dramatic shot of a helicopter whirring through the craggy brown peaks, green fields, and deep valleys of Afghanistan.
Art
Your Art Entertainment Experience Is Here!
MONTRÉAL — In the 24/7 news cycle of BuzzFeed, the Huffington Post, and every other “content producer” on the internet, there is a fine line between news and entertainment.
Art
Rosalyn Drexler’s Noir Paintings
I wonder if the reason Rosalyn Drexler isn’t better known is because she is so good at so many different things. We recognize such mastery in men, but rarely in women.