Interview
Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait, a Conversation with Curator Deborah Wye
Wye provides an expert overview not only of Bourgeois's prints and artist’s books, but her work as a whole.
Weekend
Art
A Haitian Artist’s Mesmerizing Eyes
Didier William's slithery forms surge forth and recede within a sphere of visual gravitas — heaving, throbbing, breathing.
Books
Japan’s Tattoo Art, in Classic Woodblock Prints
Ukiyo-e artists produced woodblock prints incorporating depictions of tattooed bodies that told personal stories of their own.
Art
The Quietly Radical Paintings of George Schneeman
In a real and deep sense, Schneeman was an integral part of a historical moment taking place on the Lower East Side before gentrification.
Art
Alberto Savinio’s Pre-Postmodern Grotesque
Savinio’s adulteration of old and new was highly influential in the postmodernist revolt against the strictures of formalism.
Art
Required Reading
This week, an underground restaurant, political lives of medieval manuscripts, the need to claim (physical) QTBIPoC spaces, Harold Pinter's catty side, and more.
Music
Case Studies in Musical Hooks: Father John Misty, Galantis, Ed Sheeran, Ashik Reza
Craft in itself means nothing unless it reaches total flawlessness.
Art
Three Postwar American Painters Who Were Too European for New York
Long before globalism became a buzzword, Norman Bluhm, San Francis, and Paul Jenkins joined the artists and intellectuals from around the world in postwar Paris.
Art
A Cerebral Portraitist‘s Unaccountable Neglect
In 1960, the art world was not ready to accept Marcia Marcus’s conceptual approach to portraiture.
Art
The Next Siren Wail
How do we get home from here?
Books
An Artist Who Fantasized as a Way to Survive
A self-taught draftsman and fantastical storyteller, Renaldo Kuhler’s life and fashion sense were as eccentric as his art.
Art
Dale Chihuly’s Road Not Taken
Chihuly may be a nature sculptor but his shiny maximalist aesthetic is far from naturalistic.