On the Subtle Joy of Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin began her lecture at Yale University with a deep breath … slowly, in and out. It was the mid-1970s, and Martin (1912–2004) was…
Read MoreAgnes Martin began her lecture at Yale University with a deep breath … slowly, in and out. It was the mid-1970s, and Martin (1912–2004) was…
Read MoreIt’s easy to ignore pop culture’s messages. Too easy. Popular culture delivers its ideas and manifestos with such ham-fisted, careless presentation that the first…
Read MoreOnce a train station, Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof museum now facilitates transportive experiences. There in a large hall, forty-five paintings currently hang in pairs, one…
Read MoreI met with John Currin a couple of years ago. He was finishing up a series of paintings sourced in porn images from 1970s…
Read MoreWalking the AGO’s latest exhibition Picturing the Americas: Landscapes from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic with Wanda Nanibush, an Anishnawbe-kwe artist, consultant, and…
Read MoreThere have been many works of art made by artists about September 11th; countless artworks attempting to make sense of, or commemorate, the geopolitical…
Read MoreAre art museums better off offering free admission? As the art market surges, and museum attendance rises, the question of what kind of ticket…
Read MoreWhenever I am asked to fill out a form that requires a description of my eye color, I have to get up, find a…
Read MoreIn the movies, we are accustomed to watching the main character navigate the edges of a party, fall into a moment of introspection, receding…
Read More“Basically everything I paint is in my immediate neighborhood, where I ended up,” Martin Wong said in a lecture in 1991. “So, people assume…
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