Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Lucas Samaras: Album 2” is currently on view at Pace Gallery in New York until Saturday, June…
TUESDAY, APRIL 28Screening: “Quality Television” at Light Industry
During this screening and lecture by artist and conceptual entrepreneur Martine Syms, “Quality Television,” a compilation…
Led by an $84.2-million Barnett Newman, Christie's New York pulled off another record auction last night, selling $744.9 million in contemporary art over a two-and-a-half-hour sale in a jam-packed sal…
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…
A new book chronicles the ways that artists ranging from Ansel Adams to Warhol, Close, and Wegman harnessed the speed and palette of the instant camera
Role-playing is rampant today, with artists picturing themselves as impersonators, cross-dressers, evil twins, and exhibitionists—all to throw traditional ideas about identity up for grabs .