Opinion
Weekend Words: Brink
This week, after years of wrangling, threats and doomsaying, we've received an actual date — October 17th — when the U.S. will run out of cash. Two and a half weeks and then, the brink.
Weekend
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (September 2013, Part 2)
Reviews of The Dirtbombs, Maybach Music Group, Skillet, and Icona Pop.
Art
What Doesn’t Add Up Adds Up To Allison Miller’s New Paintings
This is the second exhibition of Allison Miller at Susan Inglett Gallery. I was struck by the quiet independence of her first New York show, which I reviewed. The recent show further convinced me that Miller — who refuses to make work that is stylish, seductive, charming, nostalgic, retro, ironic or
Art
Rolls of Engagement: Photography Goes to War
“At the height of my career covering conflicts,” reflects American photojournalist David Leeson (b. 1957), “I truly believed, deeply and passionately, that there existed a series of photographs, or a single photograph, that could end war. I wanted to find that one photo.”
Art
Spinning Tales: The Many Pages of Pablo Helguera
On paper, the Mexican artist Pablo Helguera may fit the mold of a neoconceptualist with a social agenda, but the more I see of his work, the more he resembles some kind of latter-day mystic, conjuring up improbable connections and unsettling dislocations.
Art
Glimmers Out of Time: Sol LeWitt’s Walls
You’d think that after two weeks in Italy, there’d be no better way to ease into the New York scene than Sol LeWitt’s monumental “Wall Drawing #564: Complex forms with color ink washes superimposed” (1988) at the Paula Cooper Gallery.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, New Yorker gets snarky, guns at MoMA, new Banksy, digitizing drawings, a literary classic is banned in North Carolina, and more
Art
Robert Rauschenberg and Photography
It’s impossible to overstate the importance of photography throughout Rauschenberg’s career.
Books
Living in Hypothesis: The Poetry of Patrizia Cavalli
It’s refreshing, in this age of ubiquitous self-promotion, to pick up a book modestly titled My Poems Won’t Change The World, the first substantial American anthology of Patrizia Cavalli’s work.
Art
The Face of Infinity Is Not a Picture: New Paintings by Barbara Takenaga
In an illuminating interview with Barbara Takenaga, Robert Kushner makes an observation that goes to the heart of a question that I want to raise about the artist’s recent work …
Music
Fagen's Critical Catalogue (September 2013, Part 1)
This week, reviews of Vampire Weekend, Janelle Monaé, The Weeknd, and Neko Case.
Art
All Art Is Contemporary, Part 3: Florence
FLORENCE, Italy — Is there a more hallucinatory painter than Jacopo Carucci, more popularly known as Jacopo Pontormo?