A Repository of Ideas
Robert Hooke was an integral member of England’s Royal Society — a group of dispersed natural philosophers devoted to what we might now call science.
Robert Hooke was an integral member of England’s Royal Society — a group of dispersed natural philosophers devoted to what we might now call science.
Jessica KeatingApr 10, 2014
Deborah Solomon’s new biography of Norman Rockwell has been receiving plenty of attention for its speculations on the artist’s sexuality. What’s more...
Ed SchadJan 18, 2014
The integrity of the East Side Gallery, an especially artistic section of the Berlin Wall, is under threat. Should it be saved?
Esther YiDec 19, 2013
Why do we trust, or distrust, photographs? What are the forces that exist behind these images and why do they command such authority?
James DraneyDec 16, 2013
IN 2007, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC), in conjunction with the University of Minnesota Press, published its first title in the “A...
Daniel A. OlivasDec 15, 2013
The rise of the art museum in the United States through the eyes of J. Carter Brown.
Ed SchadDec 9, 2013
One of Latin America’s great contemporary artists delves into how we get to know the world around us.
Elena ShtrombergDec 8, 2013
IN 2000, THE ARTIST Catherine Opie was commissioned to produce a new suite of works for the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, the sale of which...
Laura FriedJun 19, 2013
All images: From 101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides (Aperture, 2012) © Enrique Metinides, courtesy 212berlin. An exhibition of these and other images...
Jesse LernerFeb 3, 2013
Revisiting the poetry of past installations
Ange MlinkoDec 3, 2012
The History of the Los Angeles Hotel in the Twentieth Century: An Interview Roundtable
Erik MorseOct 18, 2012
The History of the Los Angeles Hotel in the Twentieth Century: An Interview Roundtable
Erik MorseOct 18, 2012
The History of the Los Angeles Hotel in the Twentieth Century: An Interview Roundtable
Erik MorseOct 18, 2012
George Seurat’s The Models, 1886-1888 detail (In the collection of The Barnes Foundation) [Works of art] integrate their fore-history as well as...
Jeremy BraddockAug 23, 2012
Dorothea Tanning, Birthday, 1942 ON JANUARY 15, 1943, the New York Sun’s chief art critic, Henry McBride, explained precisely why it was women...
Eli DinerAug 23, 2012
On the lost humanism of Renaissance portraiture
Joseph LuzziJun 26, 2012
"Even the 'author photograph' at the end of the book is another collage."
Jocelyn HeaneyMay 20, 2012
a narrative that, even when circling away to the streets of Paris or the souks of Tangiers, continually spirals back to the figures by the roadside
Jennifer WallaceMar 30, 2012
Ford’s obsession is such that even his home, the space that shapes and surrounds his daily life, becomes a relentless design project
Jonathan CrismanMar 23, 2012
At the center of this maelstrom of sexual expression and experimentation, Kusama staunchly maintained her identity as auteur, not as participant.
Sharon MizotaJan 25, 2012
Opie has always asked to be written into history.
Jeff ChangJan 20, 2012
There's no doubt that Hammons is one of the most important artists — conceptual, black, or otherwise — to emerge in America in the last 50 years.
Cameron ShawDec 22, 2011
Stein recommends Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize, just as Freud "recommends" the Gestapo — with the same perfect irony.
Renate StendhalDec 17, 2011
Since her rediscovery by scholars over a decade ago, photographs of the Baroness have become, in their way, as iconic of the era of Dada as any.
Brian Kim StefansDec 16, 2011