Agony and Ecstasy
Barry Schwabsky
What we talk about when we talk about art.
2008
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Seeing Past the Gorgons
Barry Schwabsky : Books
The New Yorker's art critic turns his eye toward the cultural summits.
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Solemn, Expanded Time
Barry Schwabsky
An exhibition looks at the bits and pieces that made up some of the great artwork of Californian artist Jess.
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Back Talk: Tod Papageorge
Christine Smallwood
Photographer Tod Papageorge reflects on the links between American sports and the Vietnam War.
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Unlovable
Arthur C. Danto
The contemporary art world, reflected in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, is themeless and heading in no identifiable direction.
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Every Photo an Archive
Susie Linfield
Peppered with moving, thought-provoking elements, the photographic exhibition "Archive Fever" is fascinating but essentially incoherent.
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Spots, Smudges and Glitter
Barry Schwabsky
A tour of the New York art galleries reveals a number of talented artists exploring the possibilities of "bad" representational painting.
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Just Looking
Arthur C. Danto
Mapping the difficulty, danger and beauty in the art of Nicholas Poussin.
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Daring Intransigence
Barry Schwabsky
Gustave Courbet's blunt pictorial style and taciturn sensibility prefigured the ambivalence and photographic exactitude of modern painting.
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The Where of It
Barry Schwabsky
The best location for Lawrence Weiner's conceptual art is in the viewer's own imagination.
2007
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Tilted Ash
Arthur C. Danto : Architecture & Design
A retrospective exhibition of Martin Puryear's sculptures reinvents MoMA's signature atrium space as a site for spiritual longing.
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The Madman and the Poet
In a new collection of poems by the mentally ill Czech dissident Ivan Blatný, the world and the poet's interpretations of it are continuously transforming.
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A Kind of Waiting Always
A new book of Rod Smith's poems maps the geometry of social life in thoughts and phrases.
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Dark Rooms
Susie Linfield : Media Analysis
The photographers who documented the Spanish Civil War captured the heart of battle in ways that now seem iconic but were then radically new.
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Love by a Thousand Cuts
Museums can't get enough of Kara Walker, whose silhouettes of the history of slavery seem to be a nightmare she's trying to enjoy.
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The Imperfectionist
Reconsidering the life and legacy of avant-garde artist and poet Francis Picabia.
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Strange Culture
Patricia J. Williams : Civil Rights & Liberties
If the stuff of life is corporatized, does art about it become a form of interference in business?
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Artists Pursue the Disappeared
Marian Schlotterbeck : Argentina
With greater efficiency than the slow efforts for truth and justice, a traveling art exhibition bears witness to the victims of Argentina's "dirty war."
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Breaking and Entering
Gordon Matta-Clark's art displays how empty spaces illuminate the structures they are housed in.
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Cinema Studies
The staged images in Jeff Wall's photographs mirror the fictional glamour of film stills and formal painting.
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Scenes From Hell
An apocalyptic vision of the Bush Administration, from Houston artist Lynn Randolph.
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Fevered Imagination
Lawrence Weschler : Environmental Activism
Artists try to wake up a sleepwalking public to the dangers of climate change.
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A Mannerist in Madrid
Jacopo Tintoretto outshines Michelangelo, but his work is rarely seen outside of Venice.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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