Eleanor Heartney's book "Doomsday Dreams: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Contemporary Art," recently published by Silver Hollow Press, considers the various ways contemporary artists have approached…
The works in the opening show at the new Institute of Arab and Islamic Art (IAIA), generically titled "Exhibition 1," and in most cases borrowed from the artists or their galleries, owe a debt to the…
At a moment when the United States seems increasingly governed by tweet, “Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change” offers a fascinating look at what today’s media can and can’t do…
A show of Philip Guston’s Richard Nixon drawings opened this week at Hauser & Wirth in New York, so we are turning back to the December 1988 issue of ARTnews, in which Eleanor Heartney reviewed a…
Because of prior commitments, Paris-based Chinese artist Chen Zhen is one of the first to complete his installation. Titled&Prayer Wheel, it is surrounded by a crushed-paper temple which suggests…
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…
The Chinese-American artist Martin Wong (1945-1999) celebrated both his cultural heritage and New York's gritty Lower East Side in paintings rife with firemen, convicts, pop icons, graffitied walls an…
For artists, is the superhero a corporate flack, a feminist icon—or a bit of both?