Art
As one enters Elena del Rivero’s exhibition, Letter from Home: a rendez-vous, at the Josee Bienvenu Gallery (April 16 – May 23, 2015), three 72-by-72 inch canvases hang in folds, like towels on hooks, on the center wall.
Art
The paintings in Karen Schwartz’s show at Life on Mars are big, bold semi-abstractions that skate along the edge of chaos.
Opinion
This week, Picasso and global inequality, mistaking art for a garbage can, Twitter's abuse problem, gayness vs. homosexuality, and more.
Opinion
As reported this week in the New York Times, Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered emergency measures to address wage theft and health hazards faced by the thousands of people who work in New York State’s nail salon industry
Books
The Oulipo, short for the Ouvroir de littérature potentielle [Workshop for potential literature], was founded in Paris in 1960 by two polymaths: Raymond Queneau, a former surrealist known for writing Zazie in the Metro, and François Le Lionnais, a mathematician and engineer.
Art
Tom Burckhardt just keeps getting better and better.
Performance
Sybil Kempson's Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag, in a world premiere run at the Abrons Arts Center through May 17, is the first production by her new theater company.
Art
Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971, an exhibition that opens tomorrow at the Museum of Modern Art, examines in depth the early work and ideas of a well-known, influential Fluxus and multimedia artist.
Art
Sometimes you think you have a handle on an artist’s work, and then a new piece of information comes along that casts it in an entirely different light.
Opinion
This week, sex in museums, too many Picassos, Grayson Perry's Taj Mahal, inmates designing prisons, Kim Kardashian selfie analysis, and more.
Opinion
Happy Mother's Day.
Art
I don’t know Robert Grosvenor, and I have never heard him give a talk, but years ago he made a huge impression on me.