"Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist," said George Carlin. Words to live by when looking at much contemporary art, the... More >>
When the Metropolitan Museum's latest Costume Institute show asks, "Do I look fat?" it's not fishing for a compliment. Spread over 30,000 square... More >>
There's a reason they call it the urban jungle. Count on artist Neil Goldberg to remind us. In a wide-ranging show at Participant Inc., Goldberg... More >>
By simultaneously mining and questioning our past, we do not arrive at a comprehensive survey or tidy summation, but rather at a critical new... More >>
"From the moment that life cannot be one continual orgasm, real happiness is impossible and pleasant surprise is promoted to the front rank of... More >>
In an interview with Time magazine last year, Ramsey Orta, the man who recorded Officer Daniel Pantaleo's fatal chokehold on Eric Garner,... More >>
Jonathan Monaghan likes assholes. He likes them a whole lot. His assholes appear out of nowhere and to comic effect, as puckered flesh-colored... More >>
"Camerado! This is no book/Who touches this, touches a man," Walt Whitman wrote in Leaves of Grass. A profoundly secular transubstantiation,... More >>
A psychologist, treating a patient who knows cigarettes cause cancer but can't stop puffing like a chimney, might attribute the phenomenon to... More >>
A year ago Laurie Simmons opened an exhibition of photographs at Salon 94 that featured men and women engaged in costume play, a/k/a cosplay, a... More >>
The air that fills the fourth floor of Barnard Hall is thick with sweat. The clacking of typewriters and drone of punk music drifts down the... More >>
So much of what passes for neo-conceptual art — and there is a glut of it these days — would be more accurately labeled "conceptually... More >>
If you think you recognize one of the paintings from the Fox evening soap Empire on the walls of the Brooklyn Museum's Kehinde Wiley... More >>
When violent revolutions struck Europe and Latin America in the 1840s, a French newspaper editor named Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr summed up the... More >>
In 1878 Eadweard Muybridge, already famous for his split-second photographic studies of animals and humans in motion, changed technological gears... More >>
