Ellen Cantor’s Perpetual Revisions Ellen Cantor’s Perpetual Revisions
The artist’s final film tested her belief that love could be stronger than the will to power.
Dec 20, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Philip Guston’s Man Beyond Redemption Philip Guston’s Man Beyond Redemption
Guston’s drawings of Richard Nixon stayed private until decades after the artist’s death.
Nov 26, 2016 / Alina Cohen
New York City Students Tell Westboro Baptist Church That ‘God Loves Jazz’ New York City Students Tell Westboro Baptist Church That ‘God Loves Jazz’
Students countered a hateful Westboro protest with a spirited, impromptu concert.
Nov 4, 2016 / StudentNation / Peter Rothberg
The Brilliance of Lines The Brilliance of Lines
Agnes Martin at the Guggenheim and Carmen Herrera at the Whitney.
Oct 26, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Letters From the November 7, 2016, Issue Letters From the November 7, 2016, Issue
Two hearts beat as one… Fever dreams… Sticking with Stein… And the prize goes to…
Oct 20, 2016 / Our Readers
Seeing David Hammons Seeing David Hammons
Given that the artist is such a spectral presence, how can his multifarious oeuvre be summed up in a single retrospective survey?
Sep 21, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Letters From the September 12-19, 2016, Issue Letters From the September 12-19, 2016, Issue
Portrait of the artist as an old man… Yes, black lives matter… Not-so-neo-Nazism…
Aug 25, 2016 / Our Readers
Thomas Struth’s Post-Internet Art Thomas Struth’s Post-Internet Art
His pictures generate a perceptual confusion that might best represent where we stand with technology today.
Aug 23, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Ghostly Presences Ghostly Presences
Unable to write effectively but unable to remain silent, W.G. Sebald, like the narrator of The Emigrants, is condemned to speak unsatisfactorily.
Aug 17, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Becca Rothfeld
Nicole Eisenman’s Path to Genius Nicole Eisenman’s Path to Genius
In the early 2000s, the painter rediscovered a strain of modernism that doesn’t aspire to purity or certainty, but rather is willing to remain, as de Kooning once put it, “wrapped ...
Jul 14, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky