Tag: art

Columns

The Rise of the Mindful Museum

Michael Friedrich

January 03, 2019

Always a site of contemplation, the art museum has lately seized on mindfulness as a wellness trend—and a marketing strategy.

Benefactors and Malefactors

Whitney Curry Wimbish

December 27, 2018

The Whitney Museum's board of trustees is loaded with malefactors of great wealth.

The Price is Wrong

Angella d’Avignon

November 07, 2018

Without incisive critique or explosive insider information, the spectacle of The Price of Everything wears thin.

Brutalist Fiction

J.W. McCormack

October 25, 2018

After reading Diane Williams, the classic short story seems like a sprawling black hole.

The Deal of the Art

Jonathon Sturgeon

October 12, 2018

All auctions, even the spectacular, are short-lived moments of shopping.

America Shoots Itself

Scott Beauchamp

August 23, 2018

Joseph DeLappe's streaming artwork plays out American gun homicides in real time.

The Book of No Despair

J.W. McCormack

March 26, 2018

Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, a Modernist masterpiece with a new translation, makes hapless animals of us all.

Fresh Hell

The Baffler

March 16, 2018

As it turns out, enforcing structural inequality pays pretty damn well.

Literature Shrugged

Jonathon Sturgeon

March 02, 2018

We can learn a lot about the literary arts by understanding the long history of hatred of literature.

In the House of a Thousand Likes

Zachariah Webb

February 16, 2018

In the heart of the heart of the creative class sits Spring Street Social Society—a membership club for our times.

The Trash of the System

Dan Duray

November 20, 2017

Is the art world total bullshit? Two new films offer an enthusiastic, "Yes!"

New Iconoclasms

Jonathon Sturgeon

September 13, 2017

The modern history of art is a history of its removal and destruction.