The Noisy Silence of Picasso’s Guitars The Noisy Silence of Picasso’s Guitars
His sculptures reveal the artist’s secret affinities with nascent anti-colonialist movements.
Oct 22, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Laurie Anderson’s Guantánamo Installation Goes Where Obama Fears to Tread Laurie Anderson’s Guantánamo Installation Goes Where Obama Fears to Tread
The US government has abdicated its role in prosecuting those responsible for torture following 9/11. It has fallen on civil society to take up the charge.
Oct 7, 2015 / John Knefel
Why Has Criticism of the Whitney Been Unmoored? Why Has Criticism of the Whitney Been Unmoored?
It shouldn’t be surprising that the museum’s new building looks most like… a building.
Oct 1, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Michael Sorkin
The Politics of Bad Art The Politics of Bad Art
In whose service does a painter paint, or a critic criticize?
Sep 24, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
The Kiss (III) The Kiss (III)
A writer imagines a secret courtship before the advent of technology.
Sep 21, 2015 / Dispatch / Robert Walser
The Work of Art in the Age of Spectacular Reproduction The Work of Art in the Age of Spectacular Reproduction
The Internet gives us an unearned relation to the present, and the visual art of JR is perfectly aligned with it.
Aug 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Jesse McCarthy
Acropolis for Sale Acropolis for Sale
Art, anxiety, and the Greek crisis.
Aug 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
The 2015 Venice Biennale The 2015 Venice Biennale
Islands of meaning in a morass of incoherence.
Jul 2, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Theo Bleckmann’s Bazaar Theo Bleckmann’s Bazaar
A vocalist as playfully experimental as Albert Ayler or Ornette Coleman.
Jul 1, 2015 / David Hajdu
An Experimental Life An Experimental Life
Sonia Delaunay breathed art like others lived alcohol or crime.
Jun 2, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky