Shock and duh.
How L.A.’s art scene blew up
Get lost in Paul McCarthy’s dark forest
Massachusetts/Baltimore conceptual-rock unit Cave BearsNick Williams and Carrie Bren, with occasional gueststear into sound with an almost childlike avidity and intensity, challenging preconceived notions about how music can or should sound. YouTube examples of their uncompromis ... More >>
Fake meat, real artist
This week Bones, intrepid art-world raconteur, enters the crazily scary headspace of Nayland Blake, whose Behavior is now up at Location One. Statistically speaking, few people play like this... The burly, pansexual half African-American New Yorker Nayland Blake makes sculpture, drawings, perform ... More >>
An exhibit where beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Serious injuryor at least a dirt stainthreatens on a tour through three anti-art shows
Alas, the Whitney now looks almost as conservative and canonical as the Modern
Francesco Clemente, Jasper Johns, Kara Walker, John Currin, and other friends of Dorothy
A manic-depressive panic attack in the face of profound information overload
Babbling nincompoop characters from politics and fairy tales
Contradictory, hallucinogenic spaces that erupt, recede, then disintegrate into vague voids
Video art to video games: Channeling game-boy thrills, secret shames, and wartime woes
Way beyond tipsy: Are the spirits of abandon and concentration creeping back into art?
Vito de Milo: A pioneer of body art shows enduringly radical work from the '60s and '70s
Recipe for a retrospective: Mix sausages, bananas, Easter bunnies, cacti, and add chocolate
Leaving postmodernist and postminimalist strategies behind and breathing fresh air
Making a wish list: nagging qualms about the Biennial
The unpredictable happens when an artist blurs the distinction between the staged and the truth
Elusive, deluded, and chic, a new version of an old style takes hold among young artists
Just back from London, our critic has an optimistic reassessment of the British art scene
Another Opening, Another 85 Shows
Drinking and Thinking Through the Dublin Theater Scene
Denied Funds by the NEA, a Black Artist Crawls On
Art's Bad Boys Mark Their Targets
A Romp Through the Fall Art Season
