Opinion
This week, the winners of the Venice Biennale, cat selfies, controversy in Poland, Abramović loves New York, a short history of the Bauhaus, questions for the Warhol Foundation, free PDF downloads of Wolfgang Tillmans books, and more.
Opinion
Sarah Sze is representing the USA at the Venice Biennale, which opened this week. Part of her project is the production of meticulously crafted artificial rocks, which she has placed around the city.
Art
There is something subversive about Philip Taaffe’s interest in how information can be preserved and transferred from one medium to another. Since the early 1980s, when he first began gaining attention, he has mastered a wide range of processes — including collage, linocut, woodblock, rubber stamp,
Music
Everyone who said Skrillex was a novelty, a fluke, a parody, a caricature, a passing fad, the last straw, a new low, the most ridiculous music to ever hit the charts, the most ridiculous music to ever hit your eardrums, a one-hit wonder, oops-make-that-a-two-hit-wonder, or a man with bad hair was pr
Art
One of the most cleverly paradoxical shows to come around in a long time is G.T. Pellizzi’s The Red and the Black at Y Gallery, an installation of plywood walls built out a couple of feet into the exhibition space and painted entirely in — you guessed it — red and black.
Art
Nothing new under the sun? Does it really matter? “The past,” as William Faulkner wrote, “is never dead. It's not even past.” The past cannot be ignored, disdained, used up or discarded; it’s the ligand that strings us all together.
Opinion
This week, a major museum curator goes commercial, the Hirshhorn director is out, female artists are under-represented in the UK, a digital take on a gallery Jane Austen visited in 1813, the owner of John Currin's topless Bea Arthur portrait, and more.
Books
Sometimes, it is hard to remember that Social Media came along years after the rise of the personal computer and the Internet, which Al Gore called the “Information Superhighway.” But like the highway in Jean-Luc Godard’s apocalyptic comedy, Weekend (1967), the Internet is littered with refuse and u
Opinion
Now that the Feds have dropped an anvil on Glafira Rosales, the mysterious art dealer who's been the target of lawsuits over alleged forgeries of Abstract Expressionist paintings, charging her with tax fraud, the question still remains: are the artworks fake?
Music
In part 2 of this month, reviews of Draft Punk, the Knife, Matuto, and Paramore.
Art
“This cartoon-y format creates a bias toward humor and lightheartedness, but I don’t feel like that at all,” Matt Freedman writes in his artist’s book, Relatively Indolent but Relentless (2013), directly beneath a drawing of a pair of scissors snipping off the tip of his tongue.
Opinion
This week, photos in museums, why art critics matter, a street art site that "steals", the East Village Eye goes online, political economy, a rapper's run in with Marxism on Twitter, what American voters think of hipsters and more …