Serrano's "Piss Christ" caused a scandal in 1989 when it was attacked by U.S. congressmen and religious leaders. The criticism missed the work's spiritual ambivalence.
The traveling exhibition “Art AIDS America,” opening this summer at the Bronx Museum, finds renewed relevance in the culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s, especially the dual political-aesthetic strateg…
Assessing the current state of photography in Britain and in the U.S., the author discerns pernicious links among enterprise culture, art-world simulationism, and the homophobic attacks of neoconserva…