Art
A Homecoming for Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw
For fans of Kelley and Shaw, Michigan Stories is a kind of origin story, a way to decipher the work of two multifaceted and prolific artists.
Weekend
Art
Leon Golub’s Cycles of History
Golub’s paintings cast the West’s Greco-Roman heritage not as a reflection of reason and order, but as a manifestation of its latent savagery.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Louvre's Nazi loot, gender imbalance in the art world, Linda Nochlin and the female gaze, Amazon's welfare scam, the future of Canadian art catalogues, and more.
Books
The Reluctant Surrealist
Guy R. Beining's poems appear disjunctive but are in fact carefully constructed in ways that call to mind André Breton, Luis Buñuel, and Paul Delvaux.
Art
Two More Women to Add to Modernism’s History
The absence of Mary Callery and Peter Miller (Henrietta Myers) from the history of the 1940s New York art scene does not reflect well upon the city’s museums or their curators.
Art
Thomas Nozkowski, a Master Improviser
It is possible to imagine an essay devoted solely to the myriad ways Nozkowski uses paint.
Art
Politicians and Other Monsters
The Phantom of the Opera meets Donald, Jared, and Vlad.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Helen Miranda Wilson
Wilson warns me that her studio never looks impressive — a hazard of making meticulous, intimately scaled work.
Books
A Russian Poet Recounts Literary Life in 1966
Soviet-era poet Igor Kholin describes social realities of life among the writers living in cultural exile outside Moscow.
Art
A Mega-Gallery Marks a Quarter Century
I remember David Zwirner Gallery back in the 1990s, before Chelsea, when the New York art world was much smaller and more manageable.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the feud between Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud, Hank Willis Thomas's Guernica, what Google did with your selfie, fake social media followers, Arthur Miller's defense of the NEA, and more.
Performance
An Uprising Beneath the Streets of Los Angeles
The 1966 student protests in Durango are the basis for a performance by the Mexico City-based collective Teatro Línea de Sombra.