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
A Mannerist in Madrid A Mannerist in Madrid
Jacopo Tintoretto outshines Michelangelo, but his work is rarely seen outside of Venice.
Mar 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Surface Appeal Surface Appeal
Marden and Manet at MoMA.
Jan 11, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
A Painter of Our Time A Painter of Our Time
Diego Velázquez was a restless innovator, a painter who slyly revealed the ordinariness of his exalted subjects--one is almost tempted to call him modern.
Dec 14, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky