Profiles

Risky Business

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Barbara Pollack
A viewer contemplates Democracy is our goal, but the country must remain stable, installed at Beijing’s Long March Space, 2010. The title is a famous quote from former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping.

Spoofing capitalism, the art market, and China’s image abroad, Xu Zhen has developed parallel careers as artist, entrepreneur, and activist Read More

Trends

How to Keep Museum-goers Happy

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Ann Landi
Visitors waiting to ride down Carsten Höller’s 102-foot slide last year at the New Museum in New York; riders on Höller’s Mirror Carousel, 2005; Singing Canaries Mobile, 2009.

As visitors crowd into blockbusters at rates of more than 800 people per hour, museums are working behind the scenes to keep guests patient, informed, and calm Read More

Trends

Copy Rights

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Barbara Pollack
Walker’s Black Star Press (rotated 90 degrees), 2006, triptych, digital print with silkscreened white, milk, and dark chocolate on canvas, based on a 1963 photograph of a civil-rights demonstrator in Birmingham, Alabama.

As digital tools transform the way artists find and rework images, the concept of what is fair use—legally as well as artistically—is becoming more complicated  Read More

Profiles

Wilson’s World

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Barbara A. MacAdam
Robert Wilson’s rendition of Carl Maria von Weber’s opera Der Freischütz, performed in Baden-Baden, Germany, in 2009, with costumes by Viktor & Rolf.

Celebrating Robert Wilson’s birthday with essays, interviews, a frog, and a sharkshin shoe Read More

Looking at Art

Playing the Fool

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Stephanie Murg
The Fool, a self-portrait by Francesco Clemente.

Francesco Clemente takes on the Tarot card, using friends Brice Marden, Philip Glass, Diane von Furstenberg–and himself— as models Read More

Features

Curry Up!

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Emma Allen
Installation view of Rirkrit Tiravanija’s untitled (free/still), 2011–12, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Following Rirkrit Tiravanija’s recipe for success
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News

Bringing the Met Up to Date

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Elizabeth Fullerton
British curator Sheena Wagstaff has been hired to expand the venerable museum’s contemporary-art programming

British curator Sheena Wagstaff has been hired to expand the venerable museum’s contemporary-art programming Read More

Looking at Art

All in the Family

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Edith Newhall
Esther Hamerman, Polish Village, ca. 1950s.

An exhibition pairs artworks by New York painter Nicole Eisenman and her great-grandmother, Esther Hamerman, a Polish-born folk artist Read More

News

Mite Makes Right

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Stephanie Murg
Paul Hazelton’s Death Duster, 2011, made from a synthetic-fiber duster and collected dust.

Soot, sand, dust, and smoke are things that museums typically try to avoid, but these substances are the latest subject in a series of materials-focused shows at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. Read More