Art
I went to Stephen Westfall’s exhibition, Jesus and Bossa Nova, at Lennon, Weinberg (November 7, 2013–January 4, 2014) twice on the same day. The second time I walked through the gallery’s long narrow space verified my initial thought, which is that the layout of the exhibition could be read as a nar
Music
Reviews of Jake Bugg, Veronica Falls, Danny Brown, and M.I.A.
Art
Memories fade. That’s the one good reason, as far as I can see, to compile an end-of-year list. It’s sometimes startling to retrace what attracted my attention over the course of a year; it is also instructive to determine where such a miscellany of shows fits in with ongoing areas of interest, and
Opinion
This week, East Germany surveillance, the Knoedler forger speaks, smarm vs. snark, Guggenheim's authenticity problem, and more.
Opinion
What goes up, must come down, especially when no one really knows what it is. On Wednesday, Bitcoin crashed.
Music
In part 1 of this month, reviews of Eminem, Haim, Dean Wareham, and Queens of the Stone Age.
Art
You never know when a work of art might become part of your DNA, the visceral memory of which you carry around with you, even if you seldom have occasion to think about it.
Music
Today, Ono is no longer, as Lennon quipped in the late 1960s, “the world's most famous unknown artist”; at the time, he added: “everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does.”
Art
Vivian Maier spent some forty years working as a nanny in Chicago. When she died in 2009 at the age of eighty-three, she left behind well over a hundred thousand photographic negatives, evidence of decades spent wandering the streets of her hometown, as well as others cities and locales around the w
Art
Last year I wrote an article called “What You Might Be Missing at MoMA,” which discussed the paintings exiled to the corridors of the Museum of Modern Art’s fourth and fifth floors.
Opinion
This week, smartphone impact on photography, rise and fall of Lisa Frank, nail art, high-end auction market, Robert Capa in color, literary feuds and more.
Opinion
"When is a handshake not just a handshake?" asks the New York Daily News. "When it happens between the presidents of Cuba and the United States, two countries whose enmity has lasted well over half a century and resisted all attempts to normalize relations."