-
Keith Haring (1958–90) was cursed to live in interesting times. His generation partied feverishly but was decimated by a plague made worse by official neglect. Sincere...
-
Tony Matelli apologizes loudly for the clanging hammers and whining grinders in his Greenpoint studio. A melodic drone by '60s minimalist pioneer Tony Conrad adds to the din,...
-
As the highest peak in Japan, Mount Fuji looms, physically and metaphysically, over both the country and the culture, a major subject for artists and poets throughout the...
-
In 1965, James Rosenquist told an interviewer: "While I was working in Times Square and painting signboards, the workmen joked around and said the super-center of the atomic...
-
By R. C. Baker, Robert Shuster and Christian Viveros-Faune Published:
December 28, 2011
OK, folks—here you go. The top NYC art shows that happened
in 2011, selected by three of our
ever-discerning art writers.
R.C. BAKER
"De Kooning: A Retrospective"...
-
Arguing over who rates as the greatest painter of all time is a mug's game, with candidates scattered across millennia and continents. Comic-book artists, however, have been...
-
In Jim Lambie's Vortex (Sticky Fingers) (2011), a large photo of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards harks back to the Rolling Stones' album, which featured Andy Warhol's iconic...
-
Even after the carnage of World War II, Europe still looked down on their boisterous American savior as culturally backward. But Abstract Expressionism demolished that notion,...
-
Whether his lens was focused on his own abstract drawings or capturing skeletons moldering away in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, German painter Sigmar Polke...
-
Music has often been muse to the visual arts: boogie-woogie discs inspired Mondrian, and such '60s chart-toppers as the Supremes and Lesley Gore blared incessantly at Andy...
-
"In this country the blind go to the movies," Jack Smith groused in a 1963 Film Culture essay; the underground director felt Hollywood sacrificed the essential visual...
-
The rusty steel in Richard Serra’s towering sculptures undoubtedly contains melted-down steam engines, ocean liners, and other scrap perpetually recycled since the days...
-
Let's get the bleak backstory out of the way. The photographer Mark Morrisroe was born in Malden, Massachusetts, in 1959, to an unidentified man he sometimes claimed was...
-
The meticulous line work in Mark Lombardi's huge, hand-drawn chart about the 1991 BCCI bank collapse is interrupted by a pattern of rusty drips: The sprinkler system in the...
-
As a performance artist who puts her scantily clad body front and center—sometimes precariously so—Laurel Nakadate pokes a sharp stick into the Male Gaze. Since...
-
Considering the velocity of our digital age, it can seem an eternity to hold a smile for the few seconds a friend might fiddle with iPhone settings before taking your picture....
-
We’re sorry, but 2010 has been a dreary slog (Tea Party, anyone?), which is reflected in just about every graphic narrative that moved us this year. But we won’t let...
-
The Nazis make for boffo box office, with their stylish SS uniforms and Albert Speer's imposing architecture. And what could be more dramatic than the wasteland that was...
-
A pair of dark eyes, one framed within a trapezoid of shadow, gaze out from the black-and-white photograph that opens Born Modern: The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig. The...
-
It turns out that the Joker -- pop culture's pre-eminent villain -- was created by one of the good guys.
N.C. Christopher Couch's new book, Jerry Robinson: Ambassador of...
