Fine Art

A Kind of Waiting Always A Kind of Waiting Always

A new book of Rod Smith's poems maps the geometry of social life in thoughts and phrases.

Dec 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover

Dark Rooms Dark Rooms

Susie Linfield | The photographers who documented the Spanish Civil War captured the heart of battle in ways that now seem iconic but were then radically new.

Nov 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Susie Linfield

Love by a Thousand Cuts Love by a Thousand Cuts

Museums can't get enough of Kara Walker, whose silhouettes of the history of slavery seem to be a nightmare she's trying to enjoy.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

The Imperfectionist The Imperfectionist

Reconsidering the life and legacy of avant-garde artist and poet Francis Picabia.

Oct 18, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Strange Culture Strange Culture

If the stuff of life is corporatized, does art about it become a form of interference in business?

Oct 11, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams

Artists Pursue the Disappeared Artists Pursue the Disappeared

With greater efficiency than the slow efforts for truth and justice, a traveling art exhibition bears witness to the victims of Argentina's "dirty war."

Jul 12, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Marian Schlotterbeck

Breaking and Entering Breaking and Entering

Gordon Matta-Clark's art displays how empty spaces illuminate the structures they are housed in.

May 31, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Cinema Studies Cinema Studies

The staged images in Jeff Wall's photographs mirror the fictional glamour of film stills and formal painting.

May 17, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto

Scenes From Hell Scenes From Hell

An apocalyptic vision of the Bush Administration, from Houston artist Lynn Randolph.

May 2, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Lynn Randolph

Fevered Imagination Fevered Imagination

Artists try to wake up a sleepwalking public to the dangers of climate change.

Apr 19, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Lawrence Weschler

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