You notice her face first. This is odd, because she’s nude, her body bronzed and oiled, with one wiry arm holding a large double-sided dildo between her legs. Her eyes aren’t even in play; a…
Critic, curator, and freelance arts writer Catherine Taft has been named deputy director of Los Angeles arts nonprofit LAXART, Artforum has reported. Taft has most recently served as…
The critic Annette Michelson has donated her papers to the Getty Research Institute, the Getty announced today. The GRI has also purchased Michelson’s film library and the drawing Blind…
The camera is trained on a paper scrim shot in negative. For a moment, a white field fills the frame, its expanse perfectly monochrome save a tremor of scratch and grain. Then the space is…
Benjamin M. (Ben) Lifson, critic, curator and photographer, died July 3 in Pittsburgh. He was 72. From 1977 to 1982, Lifson was the photography critic at New York's Village Voice, a position in which…