Opinion
Weekend Words: Marriage
Declaring DOMA dead, (five out of nine members of) the Supreme Court also struck down Act 3, Scene 1 of Hamlet.
Weekend
Art
The Unfashionably Late Modernism of Patrick Jones
DUBLIN — Patrick Jones, an English abstract artist now in his mid-60s, spent a considerable amount of time in America. After studying art in England, most notably at the Birmingham College of Art, he left to get his MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art. This was in the 1970s. While in Americ
Art
The Wondrous Story of Emery Blagdon’s Healing Machine
Why Blagdon’s “The Healing Machine” (c. 1950–86), which consists of more than 400 separate pieces — paintings on wood, boxes full of found materials, and intricate wire hangings — survived.
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (June 2013, Part 2)
In part 2 of this month, After Dark 2, The National, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, and the Rough Guide to African Disco
Art
The New Casualists Strike Again
Two years ago, Sharon Butler came out with “Abstract Painting: The New Casualists,” an essay addressing the "studied, passive-aggressive incompleteness to much of the most interesting abstract work that painters are making today."
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, a massive Mayan city has been unearthed, street artists are being targeted in extreme ways by police, Sicilian authorities may derail a major art show, abstract art dominates 1% buying habits, a LA woman was killed for taking a photo, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Rot
Composting, anyone? If Mayor Bloomberg has his way, the next must-have kitchen appliance will be a pot where onion skins can rot.
Art
Strangers in the Night: Laurel Nakadate Meets Her Relatives
As the child of an interracial marriage (I got to meet my blue-eyed, English grandmother when I was seven, later discovering that she bore an uncanny resemblance to Virginia Woolf), I have to admit to having more than a passing interest in Laurel Nakadate’s most recent, ongoing photo project, Relati
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (June 2013, Part 1)
In part 1 of this month, Chelsea Light Moving, Balquees, Brad Paisley, and Tyler the Creator.
Interview
Artist Exchange: In Conversation with Craig Olson
Craig Olson’s exhibition Angels and Demons at Play opens today at John Davis Gallery in Hudson, New York. Angels and Demons, along with his October 2012 exhibition at Janet Kurnatowski, signals the shift in Olson’s work away from a more formal abstract painting toward a mercurial approach that hover
Art
Crackup: Llyn Foulkes Gives Us the Art We Deserve
With its superb retrospective of the art of Llyn Foulkes, the New Museum pulls off the almost impossible trick of elucidating the work of a long-neglected, unclassifiable and thoroughly recalcitrant figure without sacrificing its mysteries or thorniness.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the Venice Biennale makes the art world go round, a new accessibility icon, Starry Night explained, Warhol inspired Dior, James Turrell overload, and more.