1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1039+ words) The Brooklyn Rail With the recent return to...each other, like strata in an ever-rising hillside. Art Historicism and the Remaking of the Present Historicism’s...romantically looking back through the history of art to explore desire and the artist/model…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (741+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Rubble piles into mounts in the British director Ken Loach’s 1991 film Riff-Raff, which chronicles the lives and struggles of a group of construction workers tasked with transforming a dilapidated hospital into luxury housing in London’s Tottenham Square....

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (674+ words) from the eighteenth century to the present, Costume Art juxtaposes each outfitted mannequin with a non-textile...most apparent, is pairing a costume with a work of art featuring wardrobes of the same time period. The...represent a more literal transposition…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (173+ words) legible. Saul Ostrow is an independent critic, curator, and Art Editor at Large for BOMB magazine....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (179+ words) (ARS), New York. Courtesy the Princeton University Art Museum. David Whelan is an artist living in the...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1797+ words) great strengths and weaknesses. It goes back to books that Joe—Joseph Pulitzer Jr.—bought in the thirties,...about their formative experiences. You grew up with art, and have been involved with the art world for, what—seventy years? Pulitzer:…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (871+ words) big agenda for itself with an “aim to disrupt the art world’s usual curatorial structures.” It began in...gives the distinct feeling of honoring Vicuña as an art elder. She has built a vast, multidisciplinary catalogue...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (981+ words) × 60 inches. Courtesy the artist and Buffalo AKG Art Museum. The study of art history can lead to the perception that the subject...Ali Banisadr: Temple of the Mind at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, the framework is revelatory. This exhibition,......

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (178+ words) of control. Eleanor Heartney is a New York based art writer. She is a longtime contributor to Art in America, Artpress, Artnet and other publications...recent book is the co-authored Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (708+ words) the orthodox narrative touted by MoMA and American art history textbooks for much of the twentieth century,...been generated by productive engagement with the art and ideas of the past? The struggle over art history’s teleologies, and particularly over the......