Opinion
Required Reading
This week, why contemporary art museums are vital, the drawbacks of internet visibility, smells of the Byzantine Empire, working in the Domino Sugar Refinery before Kara Walker, all the Vermeers in the world, and more.
Weekend
Opinion
Weekend Words: Stone
On Wednesday, Hyperallergic’s Jillian Steinhauer brought the news of Marina Abramović’s latest endeavor, a video collaboration with Adidas reenacting the artist’s performance piece, “Work/Relation,” from 1978.
Art
Running Numbers: The Conceptual Minimalism of Monika Wulfers
Public perception of the history of minimalist and conceptual art is dominated by male artists working out of New York City: Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Graham, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Dan Flavin, and so on. A recent 2014 show of neon “drawings” by the German-American artist Monika Wulfers at th
Art
Ed Paschke’s Portraits of Brooding and Tortured Souls
Ed Paschke (1939-2004), who is considered a Chicago Imagist, is one of the important painters to emerge from America’s heartland in the late 1960s that New York has never fully embraced. One reason for this resistance is his lifelong interest in misfits and the creepy flipside of celebrity, which im
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Graham Nickson
Graham Nickson and I met in his offices at the New York Studio School, where he has been Dean since 1988. There was a pointed severity to our meeting-place, which offered no distractions from the task at hand.
Art
The Function of Forms: Matthew Palladino's Object Lessons
Matthew Palladino’s gallerist calls his new works paintings, but one wonders whether that label is given partly for simplicity’s sake: They are paintings but also sculptural reliefs. They are illusionistic but also real.
Art
A Slice of Pie, a Painting of the Sea
First there was a solo show by a painter’s painter, and then a slice of sour cherry pie from a food-based conceptual artist. That they were encountered on the same day was by accident and not by design, which is the way art happens much of the time.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, letting art orgs die, Marina has a headache, criticism of Gehry's plans in Philly, LGBTQ issues at Manifesta 10, NYC's shadow transit system, copyrighting scents, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Copy
Has forging Pollocks become the latest in copycat crimes? This week Claire Voon brought to Hyperallergic readers the story of New York painter John Re, who was charged with selling nearly two million dollars’ worth of fake Jackson Pollocks since 2005.
Art
Letter from Antwerp II: Rubens, More Diamonds, and Dogs
ANTWERP — The Jewish Diaspora and the diamond trade are not synonymous. Their stories don’t merely intertwine either. Together they have given rise to two cultural and literary archetypes, the Wandering Jew and the Court Jew.
Film
China’s Buried Past and Submerged Future: Patty Chang and David Kelley’s 'Flotsam Jetsam'
In the opening moments of the film, Flotsam Jetsam (2007) by Patty Chang and David Kelley, currently playing at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, a bridge-like structure is seen in the distance, partially traversing what seems to be a wide river.
Books
“Reckless sympathy, scorn”: Paul Violi’s Last Poems
Paul Violi’s poetry has rarely been taken as seriously as it should be. Probably that’s because he never took the spirit of seriousness as seriously as many people do, especially when it comes to poetry. His erudition never wears an academic gown.