Fine Art

Detail from Pablo Picasso’s Guitar (1924).

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 Guantanamo

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

The Whitney Museum of American Art

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

Sculpture/fountain by Naum Gabo at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital, London, UK

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) The Kiss (III)

A writer imagines a secret courtship before the advent of technology.

Sep 21, 2015 / Robert Walser

Eric Garner protest

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

Painting by Apostolos Georgiou.

Acropolis for Sale Acropolis for Sale

Art, anxiety, and the Greek crisis.

Aug 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Three Figures

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

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 An Experimental Life

Sonia Delaunay breathed art like others lived alcohol or crime.

Jun 2, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

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