Hope, Glory, Manet, and McDonald’s
Wang Qingsong's elaborate, often parodic staged photographs riff on everything from art history to corporate logos to Communist propaganda. Read More
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Turning the Subject into the Artist
Oliver Herring is guided by social interaction—in communally made photosculptures, in giddy performances where volunteers take on bizarre tasks, and in videos featuring strangers who come by his Brooklyn studio. Read More
Spero’s Heroes
Often using mere paper as a medium and a powerful pictorial vocabulary of her own invention, Nancy Spero spins tales of ferocious, heroic women. Read More
From Breakdowns to Breakthroughs
Art Spiegelman on storytelling, modernism, wormholes, loopholes, and the boundaries that still separate high and low. Read More
Sex, Money, Glamour, Tractors
Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov are charting new terrain by using the language of Socialist Realism to comment on contemporary Russia. Read More
The Branding of Damien Hirst
Beyond his career as creator of today’s priciest artworks, Damien Hirst is also a curator, collector, entrepreneur, restaurateur, and clothing designer. Read More
Subodh Gupta: Cow Dung, Curry Pots, and a Hungry God
India’s fast-changing culture provides both subjects and materials for Subodh Gupta’s captivating installations and sculpture. Read More
Triple Candie: Unauthorized Productions
At Triple Candie, Peter Nesbett and Shelly Bancroft focus on the fictitious and the impractical. Read More
Fake Tiepolos and the Cabbage Patch Queen
Taking off from the Old Masters, George Condo paints grotesque yet appealing figures that exist somewhere in the territory where Francis Bacon meets Hans Bellmer. Read More
Optical Delusions
In Tim Eitel’s monumental canvases, walls might be space, interiors could be exteriors, and the figures could be either real or imagined. Read More
Why All Ingres Is Erotic
Every drawing Ingres made was an overture, every painting a consummation. Read More
Rembrandt: Myth, Legend, Truth
Some have called him vulgar, ignorant, and greedy. To others he has been the ultimate misunderstood genius. He has represented the bohemian, the liberal, the Romantic, and the revolutionary. Beginning in his lifetime and ongoing as we celebrate his 400th birthday, opinions and beliefs about Rembrandt have changed with the centuries. Read More
