Playing the Field
Kacie Kinzer, Tweenbot, 2009, cardboard, paper, ink, batteries, motor, and wheels, 36 x 8 1/2 x 14 in. Photo © Scott Rudd On a recent balmy night, in the courtyard of the Museum of Modern Art, I watch...
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Alina Szapocznikow. Petit Dessert I (Small Dessert I). 1970–71. Colored polyester resin and glass, 3 3/16 x 4 5/16 x 5 1/8″ (8 x 11 x 13 cm). Kravis Collection. © The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow/Piotr...
View ArticleThe Quotable David Salle
Dana Schutz, Frank as a Proboscis Monkey (detail), 2002, 36″ x 32″. Recently, thanks to heavy wait times at the twenty-four-hour Genius Bar on Fifth Avenue, I found myself killing an evening at the...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Sisters, Scary Sex, “Sivilization”
From Sisters by a River. Barbara Comyns (1909–92) grew up one of five girls in an old house on the banks of the River Avon. When she was seventeen, her father died; the family was ruined and...
View ArticleThe Fern Cat
On Translating Amparo Dávila’s “Moses and Gaspar.” Remedios Varo, El gato helecho (The fern cat) (detail), 1957, oil on Masonite. Amparo Dávila was born in 1928—a fated year in Mexican letters, it...
View ArticlePhotos of a Pioneer
Solomon D. Butcher’s prairie photographs embrace homesteading life in all its complexity. Solomon D. Butcher, Nebraska Gothic (detail). All photos courtesy of the Nebraska State Historical Society...
View Article4′ 33″: On Listening to the Silence
About a month ago, at the Museum of Modern Art, I attended a performance of John Cage’s 4’33”. I’d read about its famous silence, but because I’d never sat in a theater and experienced that silence,...
View ArticleTom Sachs and David Searcy: Japanese Tea, Rockets, and Switchblades
“Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony” Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas (which closed yesterday) was a vast and complex exhibition of ideas within ideas about ideas, wherein the...
View ArticleThe Jumpsuit That Will Replace All Clothes Forever
Photo: Lara Kastner. It’s fifty degrees in January, and the air in the Garment District smells strangely of pea soup. The building I’ve been directed to is supposed to be an art gallery, but all I...
View ArticleThe Man Behind the Weegee
Mannequins: Weegee with friends in a promotional store-window display at the L.A. Camera Exchange, 1951. Let’s talk about that name first. Or rather, those three names. Usher Fellig was a greenhorn,...
View ArticlePlaying the Field
Kacie Kinzer, Tweenbot, 2009, cardboard, paper, ink, batteries, motor, and wheels, 36 x 8 1/2 x 14 in. Photo © Scott Rudd On a recent balmy night, in the courtyard of the Museum of Modern Art, I watch...
View ArticleSource of All Joy: On Alina Szapocznikow
Alina Szapocznikow. Petit Dessert I (Small Dessert I). 1970–71. Colored polyester resin and glass, 3 3/16 x 4 5/16 x 5 1/8″ (8 x 11 x 13 cm). Kravis Collection. © The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow/Piotr...
View ArticleThe Quotable David Salle
Dana Schutz, Frank as a Proboscis Monkey (detail), 2002, 36″ x 32″. Recently, thanks to heavy wait times at the twenty-four-hour Genius Bar on Fifth Avenue, I found myself killing an evening at the...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Sisters, Scary Sex, “Sivilization”
From Sisters by a River. Barbara Comyns (1909–92) grew up one of five girls in an old house on the banks of the River Avon. When she was seventeen, her father died; the family was ruined and...
View ArticleThe Fern Cat
On Translating Amparo Dávila’s “Moses and Gaspar.” Remedios Varo, El gato helecho (The fern cat) (detail), 1957, oil on Masonite. Amparo Dávila was born in 1928—a fated year in Mexican letters, it...
View ArticlePhotos of a Pioneer
Solomon D. Butcher’s prairie photographs embrace homesteading life in all its complexity. Solomon D. Butcher, Nebraska Gothic (detail). All photos courtesy of the Nebraska State Historical Society...
View Article4′ 33″: On Listening to the Silence
About a month ago, at the Museum of Modern Art, I attended a performance of John Cage’s 4’33”. I’d read about its famous silence, but because I’d never sat in a theater and experienced that silence,...
View ArticleTom Sachs and David Searcy: Japanese Tea, Rockets, and Switchblades
“Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony” Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas (which closed yesterday) was a vast and complex exhibition of ideas within ideas about ideas, wherein the...
View ArticleThe Jumpsuit That Will Replace All Clothes Forever
Photo: Lara Kastner. It’s fifty degrees in January, and the air in the Garment District smells strangely of pea soup. The building I’ve been directed to is supposed to be an art gallery, but all I...
View ArticleThe Man Behind the Weegee
Mannequins: Weegee with friends in a promotional store-window display at the L.A. Camera Exchange, 1951. Let’s talk about that name first. Or rather, those three names. Usher Fellig was a greenhorn,...
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