Art & Architecture

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

A Wandering Will: Mary Reid Kelley Discusses Swinburne’s “Pasiphae”
Mary Reid Kelley's nine-minute melodrama, for which Swinburne’s text serves as the screenplay, is the second in a trilogy of films based loosely on the story of the Minotaur (the monstrous fruit of Pasiphae’s lust), made in collaboration with artist Patrick Kelley.
James CahillMay 25, 2015
- Art & Architecture
- Poetry
Unpacking the Museum: Renzo Piano’s American Museums and His New Whitney
Piano’s Whitney Museum is open, accessible, energized, urban, and fun.
Joseph GiovanniniMay 19, 2015
- Art & Architecture
The Destruction of Art and Antiquities in Our Time
The threat to antiquities today is far greater from projects for dams, airports, parking lots, and the rest of the activities of modernization than targeted wholesale devastation.
Frederick BohrerMay 14, 2015
- Art & Architecture
Recognizing Complicity
"Modernism was not an idea, not a singular and well-formed position. The multiplicity and heterogeneity of its dimensions have to be addressed."
Johanna Drucker May 3, 2015
- Art & Architecture
- History
Revisiting Gordon Parks’s “Segregation Story” 60 Years Later
To see Gordon Parks's images from "Segregation Story" today is to be left emotionally bereft, to gasp at the facts of an all-too-recent history, to shudder at how far we have not come.
Lilly LampeApr 22, 2015
- Art & Architecture
- Cultural Studies
Peter Zumthor at LACMA: A Preacher in the Wrong Church
Joseph GiovanniniApr 19, 2015
- Art & Architecture
Around the World (or Part of It) with Sarah Thornton: 33 Artists in 3 Acts
Sarah Thornton's "33 Artists in 3 Acts" introduces readers to dozens of artists and a few curators operating at the upper echelons of the art business.
Annie BuckleyApr 15, 2015
- Art & Architecture
- Biography & Autobiography
A Dinner Party That Serves Only Desserts
Contributor Lyra Kilston reviews Louise Sandhaus's "Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California & Graphic Design, 1936–1986."
Lyra KilstonApr 10, 2015
- Art & Architecture
Art for the One Percent: John Currin at Gagosian
"Currin has suffered lots of slings and arrows along the way on his rise to art stardom, and the barbs have just bounced off as if made of Jell-O."
Clayton CampbellApr 9, 2015
- Art & Architecture
Printmaking: An Art Medium for the People
Robert FayMar 19, 2015
- Art & Architecture
Early Exposure: The First Films of Andy Warhol
Jordan Cronk examines the films of Andy Warhol
Jordan CronkMar 16, 2015
- Art & Architecture
- Film
The Color of Context
Any art made by an artist of color and brought into the Institution is automatically a radical work.
Nikki DarlingMar 1, 2015
- Art & Architecture