"Maybe I am not very human. What I wanted to do," Edward Hopper once explained, "was to paint sunlight on the side of a house." A telling... More >>

First it was slow food, the European social movement that made Ronald McDonald quit Rome's Spanish Steps in the 1980s. Then came slow gardening,... More >>

Jimmy Breslin was right: There is no more beautiful sight than a heaving street full of people. In Havana, on a sun-baked afternoon, that... More >>

James Turrell June 21–September 25, 2013 From the Museum of the Hard to Believe: Light and earth art pioneer James Turrell has not had an... More >>

With his aviator shades, shoulder-length locks, and blasé good looks, Jack Goldstein could have fronted some '70s band you don't quite... More >>

Painters, even the most experimental ones, continually time-travel for inspiration. Right now, you can traverse half a millennium of painting... More >>

In 1958, a six-year-old Mad Magazine published a parody of America's fourth-most popular newsstand title, which they called Bitter Homes and... More >>

Ben Durham doesn't seem like the sort of guy who would be involved with criminals and delinquents. He has the earnest and measured mien of a... More >>

A serious golfer, artist Charles McGill knows from bad lies. In 1997, he photographed himself playing through a vacant lot in Harlem, firing off... More >>

Roaming through MOMA's chockablock installation of highlights from Claes Oldenburg's early career, you can sense a febrile mind and... More >>

There is something both elegiac and death-defying about Gordon Matta-Clark's work. The short-lived Matta-Clark (1943–1978) is most famous... More >>

The mother of all Great Depression books, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, grew out of a Time magazine assignment. Accepting it were two young... More >>

Contrary to many expectations, there is rigorous contemporary art that knocks your block off at first sight. James Nares's high-definition video... More >>

Adam Cost is at a Basquiat exhibit at the Gagosian Gallery, a rare trip for him into a world he's never been welcome in or belonged to. But for... More >>

Palermo: Works on Paper 1976-1977 April 25–June 29 As noms d'artiste go, he had a ringer. Born Peter Schwarze, the adopted Peter... More >>

Robert Arneson (1930–92) was an incorrigible provocateur. You might recall his notorious 1981 memorial for slain San Francisco mayor George... More >>

Although the band broke up three decades ago, Abba continues to reverberate across cultural frontiers. Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson has... More >>

The improbably named Liz Magic Laser (yes, that really is her name) is a 21st-century Paddy Chayefsky. A hugely talented, unlikely 31-year-old... More >>

The recent New Museum exhibition "NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star" has launched a wave of multi-culti, identity-politics... More >>