Art
A Photographer of Forgotten Men
Lee Nye’s subjects were the predominantly blue-collar patrons of Eddie’s Club, where he worked as a bartender between the late 1960s and early ‘70s.
Weekend
Art
Joanna Pousette-Dart’s Landscape
Pousette-Dart’s career is proof that the art world hardly ever embraces single-minded women in the middle of their careers, whereas with men it is different.
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Miriam Cahn’s Alluring, Angry Art
If some of Cahn’s images are unexpected or unsettling, it is because, quite simply, they are the expressions of a very self-aware woman’s unapologetic point of view.
Art
An Artist's Ephemeral Monuments
At first glance, Sue Yon Hwang's paper statues look like misplaced monoliths: totemic, ritualistic, and ancient.
Art
A Vision of Mass Media Compromised and Revised
A fan of chance and the lucky find, Robert Heinecken took every possible advantage of living in a media-saturated environment.
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Dan Devine’s Art of Destruction
The beautiful, surprising, and thought-provoking sculpture of Dan Devine is formed using a demolished car as a mold.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a floating village in New York, the Black Space Manifesto, Greg Tate's criticism, Anish Kapoor's terrible Brexit art, and more.
Art
Finding Intimacy in the Immensity of Infinity
In Intimate Immensity at PAFA, touch, materiality, the sensual, and the subversive are part of a feminist lineage.
Books
When Capri Was the Place to Be
Jamie James gives a full, intriguing, detailed history of the island's visitors and expats, a wild panoply of writers, artists, rogues, madmen and madwomen, and thieves.
Art
Paintings About Change, Not Perfection
Sanford Wurmfeld’s magic is partially the result of a mistake he made in 1985.
Art
Thoughts on the Mueller Report
What a surprise.
Art
Japan’s Radical Conceptual Art of the 1960s
An exhibition at Japan Society makes room in the modernist canon for the heady, playful ideas of free-thinking renegades.