Americans in Paris at the Grey Art Museum highlights the vibrancy and openness of the Paris scene for Americans.
John Yau
John Yau has published books of poetry, fiction, and criticism. His latest poetry publications include a book of poems, Further Adventures in Monochrome (Copper Canyon Press, 2012), and the chapbook, Egyptian Sonnets (Rain Taxi, 2012). His most recent monographs are Catherine Murphy (Rizzoli, 2016), the first book on the artist, and Richard Artschwager: Into the Desert (Black Dog Publishing, 2015). He has also written monographs on A. R. Penck, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol. In 1999, he started Black Square Editions, a small press devoted to poetry, fiction, translation, and criticism. He was the Arts Editor for the Brooklyn Rail (2007–2011) before he began writing regularly for Hyperallergic. He is a Professor of Critical Studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University).
Jim Dine Gets to Work
For Dine, physical labor and art-making are interchangeable: “When you paint every day, all year long, then the subject is essentially the act of working.”
A San Francisco Art Pioneer’s Collaged Dream Worlds
With the layers of his collaged “paste-ups,” Jess pulls us into an oneiric world, at once delightful and perplexing, magical and sublime.
10 Art Shows to See in New York This April
This month: Audrey Flack, Sonya Clark, Raven Chacon, Mike Olin, and more.
The Double Life of Aji V.N.’s Art
Aji’s bifurcated practice reflects his experience of living and working in two different worlds, India and the Netherlands.
Our Mid-March Picks of New York City Art Shows
Joanna Beall Westermann, Mel Kendrick, Japanese zenga paintings, absolute gems from the collections of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, and more.
Damien H. Ding’s Dreams of a Modernist Past
In his paintings, Ding establishes an imaginary dialogue with architect I. M. Pei that reveals something about both the artist and his subject.
Sanford Wurmfeld Investigates How We Perceive Color
Paintings that appear ever-changing make us conscious of how we see.
A Slice of Americana Told Through Tapestries
Mary Tooley Parker takes a folk art form that emerged in the mid-19th century and transforms it into a way of recounting life in the 1960s.
A Painter Suspended Between Beauty and Waste
Something about Phillip Allen’s visual preoccupations speaks to the viewer’s mind and eye, the connections and ruptures between physical and visual sensations.
8 Art Shows to See in New York This March
This month: Huma Bhabha, Paul Cadmus, Kay WalkingStick, Beatrix Potter, and more.
Emily Eveleth’s Doughnuts Bleed for Our Sins
In Eveleth’s work, debauchery and decadence meet in the lowly doughnut, which we are invited to read as a limbless torso with a dripping orifice.