Of Course Larry Clark's Art Show is Full of Bare Teenage Bodies
Larry Clark's latest exhibition, "they thought i were but i aren't anymore...," is a small survey of sorts, composed of photographs, collages, and &md...
View ArticleThe New Museum Assembles a Staggering Show of Arab Art
New Yorkers are accustomed to publicly admitting our provincialism while privately upholding the belief that we live at the center of it all. The New ...
View ArticleFive Decades of James Lee Byars's "Perf" on Display at MoMA PS1
James Lee Byars was an artist possessed of certain elegance. He dressed impeccably in silk or linen suits, velvet or gold lamé, often custom-ma...
View ArticleFace Times: Two Museum Shows Present Portraiture From Vastly Different Points...
One of the many disappointments of living in the Selfie Moment is how little this genre (gesture? fad? fate?) allows for the intense pleasures of deep...
View ArticleClaire Fontaine's New Conceptual Work Is a Feather-Thin Facade
So much of what passes for neo-conceptual art — and there is a glut of it these days — would be more accurately labeled "conceptually art....
View ArticleMadame Cézanne
In couplehood, familiarity may breed contempt, but it also frees one from certain banalities of attention. “Madame Cézanne,” at the...
View ArticleHelena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power
By the time cosmetics mogul Helena Rubinstein opened her New York salon in 1915, makeup had become a sign of women’s liberation, an expression o...
View ArticleIn a Captivating Show, Hito Steyerl Vivisects the Veracity of Video
In an interview with Time magazine last year, Ramsey Orta, the man who recorded Officer Daniel Pantaleo's fatal chokehold on Eric Garner, encouraged v...
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