Art & Architecture

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

Unexpected Directions: Camille Henrot’s “Days Are Dogs” and the Erasure of the Meaning of Difference
Mariam Rahmani on the pleasures and disappointments of Camille Henrot’s “Days Are Dogs.”
Mariam RahmaniFeb 4, 2018
Beyond the Gaze: Reclaiming the Female Form After Nochlin
Linda Nochlin, best known for her essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists,” died last October. She left a monumental legacy in art criticism.
Mara NaselliJan 28, 2018
Let Me Take a Selfie: Possibility, Performativity, and Politics in Alicia Eler’s “The Selfie Generation”
Alicia Eler’s “The Selfie Generation” dilates on perhaps the seminal photographic genre of our time to think about its possibilities and pitfalls.
Hollis GriffinJan 26, 2018
Queering Dance, at Last
Melissa Templeton on the new anthology “Queer Dance,” which, at long last treats the intersection of gender, sex, and choreography.
Melissa TempletonJan 24, 2018
“The Stamp is Never Neutral”: Vincent Sardon’s “The Stampographer”
Stamps can terrorize because while their materiality exists in time, like that of paintings, it also compacts it.
Mairead CaseJan 21, 2018
- Art & Architecture
- Comics
Burt Shonberg and Bohemian Los Angeles: An Interview with Spencer Kansa
John Wisniewski interviews Spencer Kansa about his latest biography, “Out There: The Transcendent Life and Art of Burt Shonberg.”
John WisniewskiJan 18, 2018
- Art & Architecture
The Book as Technology
On “The Internal Machine,” a 2017 exhibition at the Center for Book Arts, New York.
Megan N. LibertyJan 18, 2018
- Art & Architecture
- Science & Technology
Here and Gone
A man who knows nothing about paintings, who has never painted a picture, writes about the first painting he loved. J. D. Daniels on Velázquez.
J. D. DanielsJan 2, 2018
- Art & Architecture
- Poetry
Histories of Violence: Neurodiversity and the Policing of the Norm
Brad Evans speaks with Canadian cultural theorist and philosopher Erin Manning. A conversation in Brad Evans’s “Histories of Violence” series.
Brad EvansJan 2, 2018
- Art & Architecture
- Histories of Violence
Comments on Lindsay Tunkl's Vimeo Posting of 'Is This What Feeling Feels Like? - First Attempt'
Yxta Maya MurrayDec 31, 2017
- Art & Architecture
The Moving Pictures of “Loving Vincent”
"Loving Vincent" gives itself over to the poetics of showing its painterly work. It rediscovers not only van Gogh the artist, but also his medium.
Marta FiglerowiczDec 30, 2017
- Art & Architecture
- Film
Frederick Hammersley at the Huntington
Stefanie Sobelle talks with curator James Glisson about his new exhibition at the Huntington, "Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking."
Stefanie SobelleDec 29, 2017
- Art & Architecture