Books
The Mega-Dealers Who Ate the Art World
It’s abundantly clear that the present system is unsustainable.
Weekend
Art
A Refreshing Vision of the Future
Inka Essenhigh's futuristic Uchronia is a pastoral place where what was once work is now play.
Art
When Gordon Parks Photographed the Life of a Brazilian Boy and Sparked Debate
Published in Life Magazine, the images of the sick and impoverished twelve-year-old Flávio da Silva prompted an outpouring of letters and offers of financial assistance.
Art
Finding Joy in an Artist's Swimming Pool
"Gateway," an interactive installation by Joana Vasconcelos, breaks down the boundaries between art and architecture, and makes both accessible.
Art
Lee Krasner’s Second Act
Though Krasner often invited art historians to interpret her work biographically, she was too resourceful an artist for those reductive readings to overshadow her art’s complexity.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Doron Langberg
"There is an emotional narrative to the way that the paintings are touched," the artist tells us. "If my body touches the surface aggressively or lightly, smearing or sanding, it creates different emotional notes, different speeds, and different focal points.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Lewis Hine's child labor images, assessing Artforum's #MeToo fallout, New York's most "toxic" museum boards, the rise of the right on YouTube, dissecting an Instragram influencer, and more.
Books
Is George Herriman the Greatest American Visual Artist?
Out of seemingly meager materials, Herriman created a complete world, a place where nothing ever changes and where his characters never develop, yet his sense of humor is almost infallible.
Art
Milena Büsch's Large Paintings Parody Consumer Culture
These deceptively decorative works critique the conventions and implied values of the classic bourgeois interior.
Art
An Artist's Maps of Imperialism and Greed
Dan Mills delves into the devastating numbers of threatened populations around the world and then converts them into chaotically beautiful cartographies.
Art
Lee Krasner’s Early Prophecies
Krasner’s teacher, Hans Hofmann, told her that her work was so good, you would have never known it was done by a woman.
Art
Finding Quality Time Through Art
With subversive wit and trenchant humor, the artists in Quality Time expose the arbitrary nature of society's benchmarks for meaning.