The New York painter, known for his biomorphic abstractions and broadly comic nude-figure scenes, discusses his early devotion to the linear Conceptualism of figures like Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin and…
With paintings currently in a group show at New York's MoMA, Richard Aldrich discusses literature, music, therapy and his own earlier artworks—all elements in his instinctive, self-reverential, consta…
Richard Tuttle began showing his work in the mid-'60s, at the age of 24, and quickly became a significant contributor in an art scene that included artists as diverse as Robert Smithson and Agnes Mart…
The music, a 70-minute excerpt of the late composer's 29-hour opera "Licht," was intended to be performed in a specially designed chamber with octophonic (8-channel) sound. Tiravanija conceived of a…
Though trained as a doctor, Laib changed his direction after medical school and began creating his now iconic "milkstones," slabs of polished marble with a thin layer of fresh milk sitting atop thei…
Like the Swiss-born Breuning, the buffoon is a scruffy, sandy-haired New Yorker around 40 years of age with a penchant for masks and face paint. He's obsessed with the culture around him. In the first…
Artist Charlie White is consumed by the phenomenon of the consumerist teenager, particularly the female, who has, since the 1970s, been the prime target for advertising.
June 16, 2012: Visiting the Park Avenue Armory, I discover that Tom Sachs's installation "Space Program: Mars" is up for just one more day. During the past month, Sachs has given three space flight…
A woman in a flowery dress takes the stage and tells us about Ed Halter, who is presenting at Anthology Film Archives as part of the fourth Migrating Forms festival of moving images. He's a critic…
I'm at the Harry Dodge screening at The Kitchen. The first video starts. Onscreen, someone wears a mask with a cube affixed to its forehead. There's no telling if it's a man or a woman, but the mask…