The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a branch of the New York Public Library, announced today the acquisition of a personal archive spanning the 60-year long career of American teno
The exhibition “WHY PICTURES NOW,” a survey of Louise Lawler’s work from the 1970s to the present, opens at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this week. Leah Pires writes on the artist in…
The best of Dürer's late portraits apotheosize a group of leading converts to the Reformation in Germany, all close to Luther himself as well as to the artist. In a radically simplified style, Dürer a…
Choreographer Trisha Brown died on March 18. Noted for early postmodern works that experimented with pedestrian movements and unusual performance venues, in the 1980s Brown returned to more convention…
Dore Ashton, a prolific champion of the Abstract Expressionist movement, died on January 30 at age eighty-eight. Ashton was one of the most influential voices of the New York School, authoring over th…
Where does play end and art begin? The interest in such questions, largely fostered by the 2013 exhibition “Gutai: Splendid Playground” at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, has now prompted a resurge…
On the occasion of Robert Gober's retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art, A.i.A. delved into the archives. In our December 1997 issue, art historian David Joselit argued that Gober's…
The weather on Oct. 26, the date of P.S. 1's long-awaited reopening, wasn't very promising. Drizzling rain that turned heavier at times stymied plans for an open-air concert in the newly graveled cour…
Painter William Copley believes that artists’ collections are the most interesting: “Artists collect with a precise inspirational purpose, more fetishistically but with a greater sense of unity than o…