Art & Architecture

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Comfort and Transience
Micah Cash’s “Waffle House Vistas” blends nostalgia with a kind of eerie dystopianism.
Amy BowersMay 9, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Touching the Impossible: A Conversation with Slava Polunin
The legendary Russian performance artist on the theory and politics of clowning.
Johanna SkibsrudApr 25, 2021
- Art & Architecture
The Three Passions of Alexander Petrosyan
Olga Ware speaks to photographer Alexander Petrosyan about his three passions: his art form, St. Petersburg, and people.
Olga WareApr 24, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Words Pointing to Images
A photographer’s long journey with the American everyday.
Todd GitlinApr 20, 2021
- Art & Architecture
The Art of Captivity: Luchita Hurtado
Illuminating conversations with a major L.A.-based Venezuelan-American female artist.
Yxta Maya MurrayApr 13, 2021
- Art & Architecture
The Traffic in Images
“Art Isn’t Fair” integrates Allan Sekula’s photographic projects with his writings on art.
Jonah Goldman KayMar 29, 2021
- Art & Architecture
A Pulse on the Eye: The Art of Helen Frankenthaler
A sparkling new biography of a major female abstract expressionist painter.
Elaine MargolinMar 23, 2021
- Art & Architecture
The Pleasures of Repose: A New Study of Fragonard
A new study of the paintings and drawings of a celebrated artist of the ancien régime.
Paul du QuenoyMar 14, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Thirteen Meta-musings Inspired by Leonard Koren’s “Musings of a Curious Aesthete”
Leonard Koren’s musings are more rigorous than most.
Geoff NicholsonFeb 27, 2021
- Art & Architecture
- Memoir & Essay
“I Hate Everything Equally”: Mu Pan’s Ironic Art
Karen Fang finds hope in Mu Pan’s playfully misanthropic art.
Karen FangFeb 19, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Art Matters Now — 12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Wendy S. Walters on Catastrophe, 2020, and the Work of Alan Ruiz and Bahar Behbahani
Collisions between the real and imagined world seem inevitable, and it makes sense that artists would be offering new ways to think about this phenomenon.
Wendy S. WaltersFeb 19, 2021
- Art & Architecture
Finding a Forgotten Artist
Rediscovering the lost lithography of Alice Mary Chambers.
Thomas McLeanFeb 13, 2021
- Art & Architecture
- Gender & Sexuality