Art
In November 1955, four days after Robert Frank was arrested, questioned, and released in Arkansas under the suspicion of being a Communist spy, he took a photograph, ‘‘Trolley — New Orleans’’ (1955), that was included with eighty-two others in his justly famous book, The Americans, which – we should
Art
Recently, I strolled through Balthus's "The Street" (1933) at a retrospective of his work in Rome's Scuderie del Quirinale. Each time I see that remarkable, disturbing painting, I follow the drama of a different dreamer.
Art
The lingering trauma of repression and the heady, disconcerting repercussions of freedom are tendrils that wend their way throughout Sala’s refined, giddy, somber body of work.
Art
It’s an unsentimental portrait, to say the least.
Opinion
This week, global warming and archaeology, Barbie's new looks, Christine Chubbuck's mysterious suicide footage, photos that got a photographer banned from North Korea, drone racing, and more.
Opinion
Writing in The New York Times, James Poniewozik boils down Donald Trump's standoff with Fox News to a matter of eggs and geese.
Music
Vince Staples’s Summertime ‘06 is the hardest album to hit the rap game in a decade, maybe more.
Art
Absurdity and loneliness embrace each other in David Beck’s diminutive, meticulously detailed dioramas.
Art
A precocious youth forced to work in a factory during the Cultural Revolution, the painter Zhu Jinshi afterwards joined the seminal new art group the Stars (星星), producing works that dabbled in the imported medium of abstraction.
Books
When art world luminary, Ellsworth Kelly, died in December at the age of 92, his obituaries described him as an artist who rejected the very idea of art as self-expression.
Art
Jonathan Lasker’s approach to painting hasn't changed materially in decades, and so why would his work, which struck me as an alienating (if not irritating) closed system when I first started looking at it in the 1990s, now feel so open, urgent, and fresh?
Opinion
This week, artists & empire, the first flower in space, Hollywood's white problem, art in museum storage, MLK in Brooklyn, and more.