In her new book Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s, out this week from Thames & Hudson, A.i.A.contributing editor Nancy Princenthal explores the ways in which formal…
A series of performances got people talking about a topic that had been considered taboo—and paved the way forward for artists.
Throughout the 1980s and '90s, Pat Hearn operated one of the most innovative galleries in New York, promoting artists such as George Condo and Tishan Hsu to Mary Heilmann and Renée Green. Highlights…
"Wojnarowicz was so savagely honest about where he came from and making it part of his work, which is full of passion and rage but still has this amazingly lyrical touch."
“How to Work Better” at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, surveys three decades of collaboration by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss, whose sculptures, photos and videos deftly combine absur…
John Ashbery once described Agnes Martin’s watercolors as “almost distressingly powerful.” The same could be said about Nancy Princenthal’s new biography of Martin. Princenthal’s style in Agnes…
As sculptor, performance artist, editor and writer, Scott Burton had a memorable impact on both the art of his day and the critical thrust of A.i.A.
This exhibition's long title, like much of its content, is a little cryptic. "Six Years" is shorthand for a landmark book that critic and curator Lucy Lippard assembled to track the development of ide…