
After everything that has happened to the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis in the last year — being forced to close, fighting to stay open, lawsuit after lawsuit — it’s understandable that they would present a survey show of top artistic talent, featuring big names that most with a minor knowledge of de...

On Thursday night, amid the brisk wind that seems to have taken hostage of Manhattan, I swung by the New School to catch New York Times art critic Roberta Smith deliver a lecture with the compelling title of “Criticism: A Life Sentence.” What I ended up sitting through, among a full crowd of art...

Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity November 8, 2009–January 25, 2010 This exhibition is the first comprehensive treatment by MoMA of the Bauhaus since 1938. Th...

Have you already been to the Robert Frank exhibition currently at the Met? Do you hate the crowds? Well, you’re in luck, because two other galleries are currently holding their own exhibitions, smaller and free. ...

The New Museum is New York is currently hosting the first large-scale solo exhibition by Swiss artist Urs Fischer, most famous for blowing crater-sized holes into the floor of a gallery...

Bernard-Henri Levy, in the introduction to his collection of travel dispatches in the Tocquevillian model, American Vertigo, explains his initial response to following in the philosophers footsteps: “I knew much less about him than did Americans of average education and background, who had, for a...

The image above is of brave member of the Creative Contact team, Matt Boynton, who back in April participated in Let : Bleed, a performance/installation by artist Xray Aims at Samson Project in Boston...

It’s no secret that the old models are disappearing. Distribution of the arts is breaking down, a destruction we’ve been heading toward for some time. More artists are struggling than ever before. But changes are happening, even if they are not evident on the surface. Fo...

We arrived in Denver with the firm determination to avoid the major museums and art venues to explore the offbeat and the new. Not that we dislike the Denver Art Museum – but we had visited before and were in the mood for some adventure. ...

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, a provocateur who has pushed the boundaries of postmodern art, is the subject of a retrospective at Invisible Exports, currently on view till October 18, 2009...

Matt Held, who we met at Status Update back in April,is one of our favorite contemporary artists, as well as a genuinely awesome guy...

Being born and raised a New Yorker, I have always had a friendly rivalry with Chicago. But this three day stop on our road trip turned out to be great fun and a very rewarding stop on our Art Road Trip. Our first stop was Millennium Park. Officially on East Randolph Street, it is a blocks [...]

In 1972, two years before she would cause a minor stir among the art-world with the now infamous photograph in Artforum, Lynda Benglis began a collaboration with the artist Robert Morris...






