As a writer, Brontez Purnell's ink spills between zines, music columns, novels, and screenplays. Not content with just literary prodigiousness, he also counts choreography, filmmaking, musical perform…
Along with her partner, the photographer Ed Panar, Melissa Catanese runs Spaces Corners, a photo book store in Pittsburgh. The store is small, and only open on Saturdays and by appointment, but along…
For a moment, Seth Price dropped out of the art world. In the summer of 2013, he stopped producing new work, laid off his assistants, canceled his upcoming exhibitions, and requested that online magaz…
China's huge economy, rapid urbanization, environmental and social problems, and swelling ranks of both millionaires and migrant workers are not the only things that capture headlines in the West…
Ryan Holmberg on Chewing Gum and Chocolate: Photographs by Shomei Tomatsu, edited by Leo Rubinfein and John Junkerman.
Relationality, sociality, performativity are just a few of the key terms that John Paul Ricco explores in his new book The Decision Between Us: Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes. …
For many years, the consensus was that in Europe, at least, the air had been sucked out of visual creativity during the years of WWII.
"Unlike the critics, none of the artists I know has ever accused me of being a painter. The question isn't whether painting is alive or dead, either—that's a completely demented debate. Like every med…
In the "everyday art world," artists are always on the move, disdaining not only art objects but any kind of artistic finality whatsoever, making putative works out of mere schmoozing, and turning t…
Duchamp's dictionary, Picasso's (other) muse, Lucy Lippard's landscapes, and Hans Ulrich Obrist's map quests are among the subjects of recent volumes that expand the story of art