Art History

FIRST IMPRESSION

Before the Sartorialist, 
there was Monet

DARK & TWISTED

The hippie era: not as 
free as we thought

White Hills

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

Dodes'ka-den

Surprise Me Mr. Davis+Washington

Mark Flood, Judith Linhares, and Others Who Don't Need Your Darn Network

The badass and the 30-year hallucination

Dodeska'-Den

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

WOMAN’S WORK

Look back at the best female pop artists

CALL OF THE WILD

Kids With Guns presents Wolves

Tabu

"On the Beach, A Tiny Infant Grins at the Universe": The Jim Morrison Triptych

​Above is the letter Jim Morrison sent artist Thomas E. Breitenbach in response to Breitenbach's earlier offer to paint a record cover for the Doors. Morrison's concept, in part: "Try doing a triptych. The left panel depicting a radiant moon-lit beach and an endless stream of young naked coupl ... More >>

Alphaville

The Avenging Conscience

'Sunday Best with I:Cube'

Bones' Beat: Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea at the Brooklyn Museum

All images courtesy Brooklyn MuseumGustave Caillebotte, Oarsmen Rowing on the Yerres, 1877 French Impressionism has a remarkable and, it seems, endlessly renewable currency in contemporary museum culture. The recent show of Van Gogh nocturnes at MoMA spawned an agitated, gelatinous daily mob of fan ... More >>

Aaron Lazar

LOLITA COMPLEX

Thank heaven for little girls

MAKING AN IMPRESSION

Michael Jacobs's Impressionism

HOLD THE LINE

Dial the Foundry Theatre for a good time

Outlook Grim For Prospective Professors

Disappearing job postings prompt Ph.D.'s to mull a career change

What Crisis? Some Promising Futures for Art Criticism

'Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Abstract Expressionism: A World Elsewhere

Vik Muniz's 'Verso'

After the French!

Germans, Spaniards, and Russians invade expanded galleries at the Metropolitan Museum

Nina, Meet Jesus

Three new artists and the black diaspora

Pop Goes Godard

Plus Picasso and the preservation fest

Vienna Lust House?

"Cocksure" behavior leads to trouble for all in Phallacy

Pictures at an Execution

Two museum shows illuminate history's darkest corners

'Joan Jonas: Study of the Artist With Dog'

Pablum Picasso

Moving beyond its current Picasso exhibit, a new vision for the Whitney

The Parallax View

Tampering with visual clues, Grotjahn undoes the insanity of a single perspective

Hopelessly Devoted

A gigantic pictorial engine that changed art history

Our Picasso?

A line drawn in the psychic sands of American sexual and cultural values

Unequal Partners

Discerning the difference between the good and the great, the talented and the tremendous

People Will Talk

From 18th-century Berlin to 1940s Santa Monica, a dazzling array of artists and intellectuals

Theater

Art

Film

1557: A Space Odyssey

At the Met's "Byzantium" exhibition, prepare to behold the power of the transcendental

Books

A Fine Line

Art and agitation: Parmigianino as the inventor of a new kind of art-for-art's-sake beauty

The Art of Tragedy

What I Love About 'What I Loved'

MOMA's Boys

Friendship + Rivalry = Great Radical Art

Sex and Sensibility

Only Subvert

Art of the City

Boobism and Cubism

The trouble with the Met's latest fashion exhibit