Interview
The odd one out in Carroll Dunham’s current exhibition of paintings at Barbara Gladstone is “Culture as a Verb” (2013-2015). It’s the closest thing Dunham, or anyone in my recent memory, has come to painting the feeling of terrified, paranoid sorrow.
Art
Even to the trained eye, there is something unrelenting about most seventeenth-century Dutch art.
Art
Three years ago I wrote a review titled “Is Mark Bradford the Best Painter in America?” It wasn’t an altogether serious question, but it wasn’t facetious either.
Opinion
This week, glorious space photos, Ben Carson's Jesus kitsch, rich people trying to get a tax write-off, the Whitney Museum's original sin, Jeff Wall's insecurities, and more.
Opinion
Spectre, the 24th film in the "seemingly unkillable" (in the words of Manohla Dargis) James Bond franchise, opened this weekend, furthering the adventures of the most famous secret agent of them all.
Art
Having grown up in seven different cities, there is no place I have ever felt particularly at home.
Art
Pathetic, just pathetic, to expect Strangers to know your name I guess Such is the price of fame
Art
“Youth is wasted on the young” is one of those clever-sounding, achingly wistful quips that have been attributed to various wags of assorted times and places, including the Irish writers Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw.
Interview
Lucy Mink Covello lives in New Hampshire, not too far from where I spend a couple of weeks every summer. We met at my friends’ farm, spread a blanket under trees in the apple orchard, and shared some beer, bread, and cheese.
Art
World War II signaled the death of figurative art, or so the High Modernist narrative once contended.
Opinion
This week, the origins of color, what art museums today should look like, a guide to feminist cybersecurity, a tax safe haven for selfish art collectors, emoticons as court evidence, and more.
Opinion
“Driven by fears that an aging population could jeopardize China’s economic ascent,” writes Chris Buckley in The New York Times, “the Communist Party leadership ended its decades-old ‘one child’ policy on Thursday, announcing that all married couples would be allowed to have two children.”