Art
PHILADELPHIA — Most of Jan Baltzell’s recent paintings, currently on view at the Schmidt Dean Gallery in Philadelphia, are on Mylar. DuPont, in the 1950s, was an early developer of Mylar, which is made of stretched polyester.
Opinion
This week, the Statue of Liberty's Muslim origins, Martin Wong in the Bronx, CNN's objectivity lie, Jackson Pollock's prints and drawings, antiquities on eBay, why audio doesn't go viral, and more.
Opinion
This week the Brooklyn Museum played host to the 6th Annual Brooklyn Real Estate Summit despite criticism from anti-gentrification activists.
Books
When Richard Hell’s I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp was published two years ago, it got a lot of favorable notice, but I never really thought the book — an account of the writer’s life up to about 1984 — was properly understood.
Art
Peter Saul has an uncanny ability to seamlessly combine the hilarious and the hideous to great effect. In the middle of chortling at one of his wacky, indecorous paintings, you are apt to suddenly notice an odd and even disturbing detail.
Performance
Performa 15, the New York performance biennial, in this edition looks to the Renaissance as its "historical research anchor," as the festival's promotional materials put it, though in practice, the historical tie is often so vague as to be meaningless.
Music
The latest two albums from Beach House, 'Depression Cherry' and 'Thank Your Lucky Stars,' were released this year less than two months apart, and good luck trying to distinguish one from the other.
Art
Opening in the shadow of the Paris attacks, the exhibition Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner represents — as Adam Weinberg, the director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, said in his remarks at the press preview — “a celebration of what matters in life.”
Opinion
This week, Paris > Beirut, Goya's portraits, robber barons and looting, street art and gentrification, and more.
Opinion
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson defended himself this week against charges from the media that he did not try to stab another teenager in his youth.
Art
Taking its title from a line in Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, E.J. McAdams’ site-specific installation, “Trees Are Alphabets,” consists of salvaged sawed-off tree branches, most about seven or eight feet long, sculpturally arranged on the terrace of The Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Art
What do Richard Diebenkorn and John Walker have in common? When they sink their teeth into something, they aren’t likely to let it go.