Interview
Beer with a Painter, LA Edition: Lecia Dole-Recio
LOS ANGELES — I visited Lecia-Dole Recio in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, where she lives on a quiet curving street at the top of a hill, close to Dodger Stadium.
Weekend
Art
The Other Side of Portraiture
It may be a stretch to say that portraiture is in the air — given that there are all of two exhibitions devoted to it in New York City right now, one in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn — but their confluence can feel like the kind of Marxian (Groucho, not Karl) charge you get from watching a tradition
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, history of barbecue, Damien Hirst's mid-life crisis, conceptual poetry's bigotry, the ISIS dildo flag, a crow rides a bald eagle, the first 3D-printed office, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Bank
"The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks." —Valerie Solanis
Books
Riding Backwards to See What You Missed
In his introduction to Clarence Major’s new poetry collection From Now On, Yusef Komunyakaa hints, even if he does not directly state, that there is a kind of natural quietude about Major’s work.
Art
Stanley Whitney in the 1990s
Years ago I saw a drawing in a modest exhibition at the Centre Pompidou that Picasso made on a sheet of stiff cardboard while he was on a picnic with his friends, Michel and Louise Leiris. Not one to waste space, Picasso divided the surface into a grid, and in each small square he made a quick conto
Books
“We Need a New Skin Color”: The Racial Imagination of Dada
The centenary of Dada is almost upon us. If the movement had an identifiable beginning, it was certainly at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich in 1916, where Richard Huelsenbeck, Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, Hans Arp and others gathered for events that have come down to us in d
Books
Agnes Martin: In Two New Books, A Life Revealed
How does one begin to tell — or unravel — the story of Agnes Martin (1912–2004), one of modern art’s most original and self-effacing artists, especially when so many aspects of her personal history are shrouded in mystery, misinformation, myth and misunderstanding?
Art
Staring Back: 400 Years of Portraits at the Morgan
Life Lines: Portrait Drawings from Dürer to Picasso at the Morgan Library & Museum may not venture very far beyond canonical European artists, but it uncovers richness and diversity within a circumscribed field, especially in the work of its two anchors, Albrecht Dürer and Pablo Picasso.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, USC's embattled dean speaks, famous artists review books, defending gallery assistants, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Blue
The Guardian reported this week that Queen Elizabeth appeared “unimpressed by a painting given to her by the German president, Joachim Gauck.”
Art
“The Curator,” an Art World Fantasy: Excerpts
The Curator woke up one morning to the alarming realization that she understood nothing about art and that it was possible that she would never understand anything about art.