Is the iPhone a Blessing or a Curse for Art?
In 1951, Hans Namuth first published his photos of Jackson Pollock at work. They were meant as documents of the famed artist’s process. But…
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MoMA “Steps on a Nail” with Bad Björk Show
There has been an immense volcano building up under the Museum of Modern Art for some time, a well of rage from old-school art…
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The Figure is Back in New Museum Triennial
The figure is back. This is the main thesis according to New Museum’s Triennial “Surround Audience,” which offers a near-deafening obsession with the self….
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Ben Schumacher Comes of Age at New York’s Bortolami Gallery
It seems like Ben Schumacher took a while to find what he really wanted. The 29-year-old Canadian-born artist studied architecture and art at the University…
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What On Kawara’s Analog Wisdom at the Guggenheim Has to Offer a Digital World
In 2009, @on_kawara flickered onto the scene. The Twitter account, whose profile picture is a black square, simply tweeted out once a day, “I…
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Loris Gréaud Smashes the Mold for Museum Shows
It’s Saturday night in Dallas, at the debut of “The Unplayed Notes Museum,” by the French art star Loris Gréaud. The cavernous, spookily lit space…
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Can Abstract Art Still Be Radical?
Is abstract art, especially the geometric kind, radical anymore? This is the big question that vibrates through the Whitechapel Gallery’s rich and jam-packed history…
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Why I Believe New York’s Art Scene Is Doomed
This is an article about art and gentrification, the inescapable topic. I have something new to add—that I think we may be coming to the…
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30 Art-Writing Clichés to Ditch in the New Year
It’s a new year, which is a fine excuse as any to ditch old bad habits. Here below, I have assembled a not-at-all exhaustive…
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After Ferguson, A New Protest Culture’s Challenge to Art
Walter Benjamin has a line about the Angel of History who sees the past as “one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and…
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