Jean Nouvel, the bold French architect known for such wildly diverse projects as the muscular Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and the exotically louvered Arab World Institute in Paris, has received architecture’s top honor, the Pritzker Prize.
In the 1970s the African-American artist Adrian Piper donned an Afro wig and a fake mustache and prowled the streets in the guise of the Mythic Being, a performance-art version of a stereotype of the black male as a threatening mugger.She was turning fear into farce, punching a hole into such stereotypes while acknowledging their [...]
There’s one Banksy mural that stands out when you visit Bristol, home town of the guerrilla artist who has become an art-world phenomenon. The title of the piece is The Mild Mild West and it depicts a huge, smiling teddy bear with a Molotov cocktail in his paw, facing three policemen holding up riot shields.
“People [...]
Installation view of the Armory show.
These days contemporary-art fairs tend to travel in franchised packs. A large successful fair spawns parasite copycat fairs, and before you know it, you’ve got an art-fair fair.
New York is having one this weekend. The Armory Show, now in its 10th incarnation, is back, accompanied by nine younger, smaller, less [...]
Onstage and in various exhibitions Berlin this year has been celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Heinrich Zille.
“Women in the Pub,” by Heinrich Zille, 1909
Michael Kimmelman writes: “Onstage and in various exhibitions Berlin this year has been celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Heinrich Zille.”
Bigger names have come and gone, but few careers in painting have been more consistently interesting over the last 25 years than Carroll Dunham’s. Mr. Dunham, who is 58 and lives in New York, is known for his cartoonish paintings of blockheaded men with penis-shaped, bullet-firing noses, who star in hectic stories of sexual conflict [...]
Despite the grandiose title, this is neither the long overdue survey of American art we need in this country, nor even a small-scale “masterpiece” show that would whet the appetite for one.
Instead, Dulwich Picture Gallery’s spring exhibition is a miscellany of works from the collection of the tiny Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, [...]
