Art
Julian Kreimer: A Place to Call Home
Julian Kreimer is a “painter’s painter.” No, I take that back. He’s a “photographer’s painter.”
Weekend
Books
Contemporary Photography's Capitalist Realism
In Caspar David Friedrich's “Frau vor untergehender Sonne” (“Woman before the Rising Sun”), a young woman is depicted facing the rising sun, which turns her almost completely, but not entirely, into a silhouette.
Art
The Swinging Sixties’ Grooviest Art Dealer: In London, Remembering Robert Fraser
LONDON — Looking back at history, one encounters certain individuals who reflect the changing attitudes, social values, or cultural trends of their times, while certain others seem to define and embody them; they’re the ones who become the symbols of the spirit of an age.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, considering why museums publish online, destroying an Islamic museum, a new peacock spider, Mac's original icons, male shaming, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Half
This week, Hyperallergic’s Laura C. Mallonee reported that the Friedenstein Foundation in Gotha, Germany, is seeking the upper half of the 16th-century painting “Bowl With the Head of John the Baptist” by Lucas Cranach, which was sawn in two by an art dealer in 1936.
Poetry
Sweet Soul Music: Fred Moten’s "The Little Edges"
The title of Fred Moten’s latest collection, The Little Edges, pinpoints the border country where his poetry unfolds.
Art
Rosalyn Drexler’s Noir Paintings
I wonder if the reason Rosalyn Drexler isn’t better known is because she is so good at so many different things. We recognize such mastery in men, but rarely in women.
Art
How We Got Here: Portrait of the Artist as a Queer Feminist
As long as I can remember, I’ve organized and been involved in artist groups and collectives.
Art
Words Fall Away: 'Judith Scott — Bound and Unbound'
The first time I saw Judith Scott’s work was in Rosemarie Trockel’s retrospective, A Cosmos, at the New Museum.
Art
Taking the Minimal Out of Minimalism: Robin Peck’s Abstract Skulls
There are nine lumps of plaster and Hydrocal — covered in yellowing shellac and polished wax — on display at CANADA on the Lower East Side, their domed tops roughly the size and shape of a human skull (hence the title of the exhibition, Crania).
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, an image-heavy Required Reading explores the memes that set the internet on fire, and MoMA's R&D Salons are now online.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Domain
The domain’s name is clintonemail.com, which Hillary Clinton used, according to The New York Times, “for everything — from State Department matters to planning her daughter’s wedding and issues related to the family’s sprawling philanthropic foundation.”