The Art of the Curious Nineties
The decade is back big-time—but whose ’90s is it, anyway? Read More
Author Archives: Linda Yablonsky
Taking It to the Limits
Marina Abramović’s performances, feats of endurance involving self-denial and even self-mutilation, are so influential that MoMA has asked 35 artists to re-create them for an upcoming retrospective—and so provocative that it is building a separate entrance for the show. Read More
You Had to Be There
More and more artworks exist not as objects but as ephemeral events—a conversation, a thunderclap, a slow-motion kiss—that insist viewers take part. Read More
Hollywood’s New Wave
More and more artists are directing feature films with large casts, big budgets, and elaborate story lines involving everything from intellectual werewolves to Polish cowboys. Read More
Slides and Prejudice
The controversy around painting from photographs continues as new generations and new image-making technologies keep the debate alive. Read More
Why Small Is BIG
From Tom Friedman’s eraser shavings to Rob de Mar’s minuscule waterfall to Adia Millett’s tabletop dollhouses, intimately scaled sculptures are making a large impact. Read More
What Makes a Painting a Painting?
It used to be simple: wet paint on a flat surface. No more. Today painting can include photography, digital prints, sculpture, and a host of other materials—but not necessarily paint. Read More
What’s So Funny About Contemporary Art?
Artists are finding inspiration in gags, slapstick, clowns, comics, and stand-up comedy. The results are sometimes satirical, sometimes ludicrous, and sometimes ‘so funny you could cry’. Read More
How Far Can You Go?
With male nudes in full display, pornography a common source material, and explicit imagery the norm in galleries and museums, sex in art has become fun, disturbing, raunchy—even cerebral. Read More
To Thine Own Selves Be True
Role-playing is rampant today, with artists picturing themselves as impersonators, cross-dressers, evil twins, and exhibitionists—all to throw traditional ideas about identity up for grabs . Read More
Harlem: A New Renaissance
Harlem: A New Renaissance. A New Renaissance Read More