Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Jasper Johns speaks about his new series, Gehry critique, world press freedoms, what makes a good photo, origin of the word fuck, scientists make nuclear fusion, and more.
Weekend
Opinion
Weekend Words: Face
On Wednesday, Hyperallergic's Mostafa Heddaya reported on the Museum of Modern Art's attempt to save face by saving the bronze plate facade of the American Folk Art Museum.
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (February 2014, Part 1)
In part 1 of this month, reviews of 2 Chainz, Panic! at the Disco, Jason Isbell, David Bowie, and El-P & Killer Mike.
Art
Forensic Observer: The Recent Paintings of Josephine Halvorson
Josephine Halvorson transcribes the anonymous, weather-beaten traces left by those who might otherwise have left no other mark of their existence behind.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Ryan Cobourn
A couple of years ago, while we were walking through the de Kooning exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Ryan Cobourn said to me, “Your interviews with artists should be more informal and rambling. You should do them, y’know, over beer.”
Art
A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Marville's Photographs of Paris before Haussmann
The life of French photographer Charles Marville, the subject of a retrospective currently at the Metropolitan Museum, comes down to us hazy in its contours. Born Charles-François Bossu in 1813 to a family of artisans and tradesmen, Marville rid himself of “Bossu” (hunchback) after being teased abou
Art
It’s a Man’s World: Inside a Postwar Art Time Capsule
There may be some great-looking specimens of postwar art in Re-View: Onnasch Collection — an exhibition that turns Hauser & Wirth’s cavernous Chelsea outpost into a mini-museum offering the kind of intimate experiences that have been all but lost in New York’s uptown behemoths — but the show also ar
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the Sochi Olympics look a lot like art, the internet has a style guide, art history of slavery in Canada, 101 female artists got Wiki pages recently, who benefits from NEA grants, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Winter (2014 Edition)
A year ago, Weekend Words gave winter its due. After the week we've had, a revisit seemed in order, this time an all-poetry tribute.
Books
The Scientific Artist: On Reading Michel Houellebecq
I can think of no better way to frame a brief introduction to Houellebecq’s work (still largely unfamiliar to Americans) than to structure it around a tension between analysis and lyricism.
Art
Richard Baker Kicks Out the Jams
For the past decade, Richard Baker has developed two distinct but related bodies of work, one in oil and the other in gouache: the oil paintings depict tabletops covered with all sorts of printed ephemera and bric-a-brac; the gouaches are of book covers and, more recently, record covers.
Art
Enamored Magicians: The Hermetic World of Jess and Robert Duncan
An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle presents a slice of the rich Northern California art world of the postwar years. Much of what is here is not “gallery art,” in a commercial sense, but art created by and for a small community of friends, colleagues, and lovers, rooted in