Vision Quest: Exploring the Venice Biennale
A channel-changing exhibition about imagination headlines a convergence of art from 88 countries Read More
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A Gallery of Venice Biennale Artists
Converging on Venice from Iraq, Iceland, Azerbaijan, and beyond, they came, they showed—and they posed for photos Read More
Just Desserts: Let Them Eat Cake, as Long as It’s Thiebaud
A book of sweet recipes inspired by Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, and more Read More
Girl with a Hoop Earring: Fun with Vermeer
Two beloved Vermeers have left Holland for a stint in the U.S. They’ll find their descendants stripped by Dalí, bedecked in toilet-paper rolls, and reincarnated by Cindy Sherman Read More
What a Short, Strange Miami Trip It’s Been
Best optical illusion, best cat, and other highlights that linger in the mind and the brain after five days of fair-going Read More
How PoMo Can You Go ?
It was considered the End of Modernism, the beginning of a new era of content, irony, appropriation. So what ever happened to Postmodernism? Read More
The Cindy Sherman Effect
By inventing her own genre, Cindy Sherman has influenced the way generations of artists think about photography, portraiture, narrative, and identity Read More
How Far Is Too Far?
Contemporary artists have made work depicting graphic sexual acts, damaging property, injuring their own bodies, or paying others to alter theirs. But when does art cross the line from avant-garde to unacceptable?. Read More
The Indecisive Image
In pictures of ethereal specks and kaleidoscopic explosions of color, photographers are embracing abstraction. 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
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
How Our Critics Spoke
The good, the bad, the splendid, the beautiful, and “a negation of everything under the sun and the sun itself”. Read More
