History and place have long been muses for Canadian artist Stan Douglas, whose peripatetic, time-traveling work includes film, video, photography and installations.
Ingrid Calame's luscious, seemingly abstract paintings and drawings incorporate tracings of gritty urban surfaces made on-site, among them graffiti and stains around the Los Angeles River, tire trac…
Formerly displayed on a Connecticut waterfront estate, a major work by Anselm Kiefer is now on view at a Massachusetts museum, where it will remain for over a decade.
Several months ago I met the video and multimedia artist Doug Aitken, who told me of his plans, years in the making, for a three-week cross-country trip aboard a specially outfitted train, with seve…
At the 55th Venice Biennale, two neighboring projects in the Arsenale, one by Iceland's Ragnar Kjartansson and one by Tavares Strachan, from the Bahamas—idiosyncratic and adventurous artists, hailin…
Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson's nine-screen installation The Visitors (2012) is a pop-music video in extremis, breaking every protocol for the genre.
With its stark beauty, raw geologic power and captivating natural phenomena, Iceland has long been both subject and muse for Olafur Eliasson, whose parents are Icelandic, although he was born and rais…
Franz Schreker (1878-1934), the Austrian composer, conductor, professor and director of the Musikhochschule in Berlin, was a major cultural figure in the pre-Nazi era.
In her catalogue essay accompanying Richard Tuttle's 2005 exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, curator Madeleine Grynsztejn locates Tuttle, with his spare works, simple materials an…
Last week, a standing room-only crowd experienced a delightfully idiosyncratic poetry reading by poet, author and video artist Tan Lin. He didn't recite the texts—combinations of composed lines, bib…