Art
Recognizing Ed Clark's Contribution to Abstraction
The work of Clark should remind us of all the interesting things going on in painting in the 1970s, even if few people were looking.
Weekend
Art
When Little Doughy Men Play Victim
I am hopelessly optimistic, but it takes work.
Art
Abstraction with a Political Conscience
Olivier Mosset’s career could almost be seen as a grand Fluxus-style gesture of quiet provocation.
Art
Louise Nevelson's Graphic Imagination
Nevelson used drawing as a creative bridge back and forth into the making of sculpture.
Art
The Overdue Skyrocketing of Simone Leigh
Simone Leigh’s chief subject is, in her own terms, “black female subjectivity,” hardly a predominant theme in an art world that has skewed way white and male since its inception.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a new biography of Carleton Watkins, Noam Chomsky on the State of the Empire, Mac Collins's afrofuturist chair, Brian Acton spilled the beans on Facebook, and more.
Art
The Amazing Katherine Bradford
Bradford's new paintings represent a significant departure from her previous work, which gained many admirers, myself included. Simply put: she has gotten much better at getting at difficult subjects.
Art
Ian Hamilton Finlay's Philosophical Gardening
For Finlay, the garden was not simply a place of beauty, but rather a liminal space bordered by nature and culture, where visitors are invited to meditate on the different ways time passes.
Art
Kyle Staver's Historical Revisions
Without resorting to parody or cynicism, Staver undoes the tropes we associate with depictions of heroic and mythical.
Art
Tiny Hands
The President’s hand size becomes a full-blown social meme obscuring the true downsizing of government.
Art
Drawing the Essay
Colter Jacobsen is an artist whose methods, thought processes, aesthetic, and values accord with many poets and their work.
Music
Four Takes on the Cover Album
Cover albums reveal something about the evolution of shared taste and cultural memory.