Interview
Beep Beep: An Interview with Brandon Brown
“The momentary eternal sounds like heaven to me.”
Weekend
Art
What’s Not For Sale: Hollis Heichemer’s Imminence
The thing Hollis Heichemer depicts, if we can call it a thing, seems to be visual experience itself.
Art
Leah Tacha: In the Zone
Leah Tacha doesn't poach styles or genres for their own sake. She has found a personal through-line in her enthusiasms that allows her to both plumb her moment and link to our collective past.
Art
The Life Emphatic with Valentin de Boulogne
While the name “Caravaggio” inevitably rides along in the title of the show, it is there to assert that we are moving “beyond.”
Art
Required Reading
This week, a museum of rocks that look like faces, Art Basel reports, Putin defends artistic freedom, the apolitical Turner Prize, hidden art in Switzerland, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Absolve
"Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. "
Books
Reader’s Diary: Liam Gillick's ‘Industry and Intelligence’
Is Liam Gillick a writer?
Books
A Poetics of Being: Charles Olson Reconsidered
In Letters for Olson, the reader is reminded repeatedly that the intellectual projects of Charles Olson and his students were aspects of a larger cultural transformation, which began in the 1940s and continued into the early ’70s.
Art
Original Translations
Diane Simpson’s sculptures, which are made from planes she cuts and scores when she wants to curve them, always begin with a drawing.
Art
“Neither Flesh nor Fleshless”
What’s great about Rothko’s paintings is their refutation of language, the way they push back against conclusions.
Art
Origins of Originality: 'Matisse/Diebenkorn' at the Baltimore Museum of Art
At the core of this show is a conversation in paint about influence and individuality.
Art
Agnes Martin’s Contemporary Sublime
This uninterrupted stroll through nearly six decades of work reminds one of how few other artists from her generation sustained such long, capable, trajectories in art-making.