Fine Art

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

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