Art
A Community Maintains Its Monument
Of all the celebrated structures in the United States, the San Francisco de Asis Mission Church in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, is arguably the humblest.
Weekend
Art
The Formation of Georgia O’Keeffe
In 1916, Georgia O’Keeffe landed a job teaching art at West Texas State Normal College (now West Texas A&M) and moved to a town called Canyon.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Getty's recorded art history, Muhammad Ali's radical history, Michelle Obama's commencement speech, Morley Safer as artist, venture philanthropists, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Monster
"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself."
Books
Reader’s Diary: Catherine Texier’s ‘Russian Lessons’
It’s so hard to read a friend’s book without prejudice.
Art
A Truly Great Artist
At once compassionate and angry, empathetic and satirical, tender and tough, Nicole Eisenman is a storyteller, portraitist, social chronicler, allegorist, fantasist, utopian dreamer and history painter, to name just a handful of her many artistic identities.
Art
Something New Under the Sun
Richard Van Buren studied ceramics at Mexico City College. Later, he moved to San Francisco, where he studied at San Francisco State (1961–64).
Art
Repairing the Damage of Haste: The Still Point and Stir of William Bailey
Minutes before seeing a collection of William Bailey's meditative still-lifes and figure paintings, I heard, yet again, a series of small-minded and reckless comments by Donald Trump.
Music
Fatima al Qadiri's Poetry of Terror and Protest
Fatima Al Qadiri has just released her second full-length album, Brute. A concept album, it is, according to Al Qadiri, a protest album in the lineage of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.”
Art
In Hannelore Baron’s Art, a Voice of Defiant Hope and Survival
Can art born of unspeakable horrors express something other than the soul-scarring pain and trauma that forever mark its creator?
Art
Myth, Flesh, and Three Paintings by Charles Garabedian
There is a small exhibition in memory of Charles Garabedian (1923 - 2016) currently at Sidecar, the adjoining annex space of Betty Cuningham Gallery on the Lower East Side.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, 72 new emojis, being photographed by Mapplethorpe, Dublin's artist studio problems, empathy vs exploitation, Warhol on Trump, and more.