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 >>

So now we know: If Al Gore hadn't invented the Internet in the 1980s, the art world, circa 1993, would have spawned it instead. The New Museum's... More >>

In a stroke of grim serendipity, Trevor Paglen's latest exhibition opened on the day the Senate began confirmation hearings on John O. Brennan,... More >>

"The art market focuses attention on what its priorities are, which is big buying and big selling—so we wind up talking about Koons, Hirst,... More >>

"I love him—no, no!" says a laughing Leonid Sokov when I mention Joseph Stalin. We are surrounded by guests hoisting shots of... More >>