During the London presentation of the 56th Venice Biennale, “All the World’s Futures,” curator Okwui Enwezor talked a lot about the past. H referenced…
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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. 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The idea sounds perfectly Gatsby-esque. Build a massive pool inside the 55,000 square foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall of the Park Avenue Armory, fill…
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