Art
Words Fall Away: 'Judith Scott — Bound and Unbound'
The first time I saw Judith Scott’s work was in Rosemarie Trockel’s retrospective, A Cosmos, at the New Museum.
Reviews
Art
Taking the Minimal Out of Minimalism: Robin Peck’s Abstract Skulls
There are nine lumps of plaster and Hydrocal — covered in yellowing shellac and polished wax — on display at CANADA on the Lower East Side, their domed tops roughly the size and shape of a human skull (hence the title of the exhibition, Crania).
Performance
One City, Two Experimental Plays, a Whole Lot of Creative Women
Last week was an outstanding one for experimental theater in Detroit.
Art
Painting Four Decades of Change in the East Village
New Works and the Avenue A Cut-Out Theatre, Anton van Dalen’s first solo show in eight years, charts the shifting landscape of New York City. Populated with imaginative characters, the artist’s latest work vividly documents the forces of gentrification and change.
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John Currin’s Silly Porn-Inspired Portraits Somehow Work
LOS ANGELES — John Currin’s bizarre vignettes of feminine allure are bound to arouse some rather rich and complicated feelings in the viewer, and that is a good thing.
Art
At a University Museum, an Exhibition Examines Student Debt
EAST LANSING, Mich. — On the sprawling grounds of Michigan State University, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum is a sleek, modernistic storehouse amidst the dull brick buildings that populate the campus.
Art
Sculpting the Shapes of a Monochrome Landscape
CHICAGO — The stated aim of Scaped, a group exhibition at the A+D Gallery, is to create an "artistic ecosystem" of artworks that play with the idea of landscape primarily by removing color and offering a catalogue of various shapes and objects in monochrome.
Art
Strange Days in Victor Moscoso's 1960s and '70s Psychedelic Drawings
Victor Moscoso picked up color theories while studying with Josef Albers at Yale University in the late 1950s, and soon turned that abstract harmony into a psychedelic friction.
Books
An Essay Collection Wanders Through Centuries of Cultural Curiosities
In his essay on Andy Warhol’s 1964 film “Empire,” writer, critic, and public intellectual Brian Dillon turns what many would consider an invitation to deeply nap into an invitation to deeply look.
Art
Kinetic Energy Transforms Humble Materials into Minimalist Drums
Swiss installation artist Zimoun, who specializes in immersive soundscapes and acoustic architecture, has seemingly turned all of New York into a giant aural installation.
Art
From Sea to Shining CSA, Politics Crop Up in Locally Sourced Art
WASHINGTON, D.C. — If there's any single image that provides an instant philosophical précis to Locally Sourced, up through March 15 at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, it's "Ronald."
Art
The Stories of Minors Sentenced to Life in Prison
DETROIT — The US is the only country in the world that sentences children to life without parole, also known as “natural life,” for crimes they committed before they could quit school, drive, or vote.