Back Talk: Tod Papageorge Back Talk: Tod Papageorge
Photographer Tod Papageorge reflects on the links between American sports and the Vietnam War.
May 15, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
Unlovable Unlovable
The contemporary art world, reflected in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, is themeless and heading in no identifiable direction.
May 8, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Every Photo an Archive Every Photo an Archive
Peppered with moving, thought-provoking elements, the photographic exhibition "Archive Fever" is fascinating but essentially incoherent.
Apr 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Susie Linfield
Spots, Smudges and Glitter Spots, Smudges and Glitter
A tour of the New York art galleries reveals a number of talented artists exploring the possibilities of "bad" representational painting.
Apr 9, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Just Looking Just Looking
Mapping the difficulty, danger and beauty in the art of Nicholas Poussin.
Mar 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Daring Intransigence Daring Intransigence
Gustave Courbet's blunt pictorial style and taciturn sensibility prefigured the ambivalence and photographic exactitude of modern painting.
Mar 6, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
The Where of It The Where of It
The best location for Lawrence Weiner's conceptual art is in the viewer's own imagination.
Feb 5, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
An Unmonumental Grimace An Unmonumental Grimace
Taking stock of the new New Museum.
Jan 29, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Tilted Ash Tilted Ash
A retrospective exhibition of Martin Puryear's sculptures reinvents MoMA's signature atrium space as a site for spiritual longing.
Dec 13, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
The Madman and the Poet The Madman and the Poet
In a new collection of poems by the mentally ill Czech dissident Ivan Blatný, the world and the poet's interpretations of it are continuously transforming.
Dec 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Paloff