Art
Rachel, Monique, Sophie Calle’s memorial to her mother, is installed in a side chapel of the starkly beautiful neo-Gothic Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest on Fifth Avenue and 90th Street. On a marble plaque beside the chapel entrance, the artist has overlaid a brief text noting that her mother
Opinion
This week, Peggy Guggenheim troubles, bell hooks on Beyoncé, Marianne Boesky on art, an unknown genius of Art Deco, lack of diversity at the National Gallery of Art, ruining Thomas Kinkade, and more.
Opinion
After fierce opposition from scholars, writers, critics and the public, the New York Public Library announced this week that it has reversed its plan, developed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Norman Foster (aka Lord Foster of Thames Bank), to revamp its landmark Beaux-Arts building on Fifth Ave
Art
As a poet interested in the social material of writing, I found a deep connection with the early paintings of Shusaku Arakawa and with Arakawa and Madeline’s Gins paradigmatic The Mechanism of Meaning (1971).
Art
As much as Howardena Pindell’s unstretched paintings and drawings share something with the Pattern and Decoration movement, or with monochromatic abstraction, color field painting, all-over painting, fiber art, the counting work of Roman Opalka, and the spot paintings of Larry Poons, what elevates t
Film
Al Carbee was an old man who liked dolls.
Art
I’m in a surgical center in Scottsdale, Arizona, being treated as if I were an esteemed guest at a Marriot. Better. A series of very nice people are being serially very nice to me, asking me questions, checking-in with how I feel, giving appropriate boosts.
Art
“The intestine is a hole that we can never fill,” Anna Maria Maiolino tells the curator Helena Tatay in a wide-ranging interview published on the Documenta 13 website, “just as we can never fulfill desire.”
Opinion
This week, the secret of the pyramids, morality of architects, bell hooks on Sheryl Sandberg's "faux feminism," photographing "whiteness," Whitney Biennial on Charlie Rose, and more.
Opinion
The Whitney Museum will soon be moving to its new location near the High Line, and the Metropolitan Museum will be moving its modern and contemporary art collection into the Whitney's historic Marcel Breuer building.
Art
Since Julian Schnabel first gained attention with his broken plate paintings in the 1980s, he has been predisposed to working on found surfaces – animal skins, velvet, corduroy, sail cloth, tarpaulins, canvas flooring from boxing rings, wallpaper, navigation maps, flags, Kabuki theater backdrops, an
Art
Has the outsider art field become a victim of its own success? If so, it is a peculiar “victim,” and its success must be measured by standards that go beyond the money-obsessed art world’s primary criterion for determining aesthetic value — the price tag that any specific work happens to sport at an