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Two Women in a Man’s Art World

You are not likely to find the work of Mimi Gross and Marcia Marcus in the permanent collections of any major New York City museum. I find that…

Egon Schiele’s God of Desire

Schiele’s hometown is commemorating the centennial of his untimely death.

David Bowie, the Nobel Prize, and Panic in Stockholm

The current drama around the Swedish Academy has reached Shakespearian proportions, and might even flip the way we look at contemporary culture.

The All-Encompassing Cardi B

Invasion of Privacy sounds like another conventional rap album, before revealing Cardi B’s maniacal determination to be all things to everybody.

Performing European Traditions in the US and Reviving American Myths in Europe

In her book EUSA, photographer Naomi Harris documents Bavarian and Danish festivals in the US, Wild West theme parks in Europe, and other recipr…

Calls to Take Down Columbus and J. Marion Sims Statues at Public Hearing on NYC Monuments

During a four-hour public hearing in Manhattan on Wednesday, Central Park's Sims statue was universally reviled, while monuments to Columbus, Ro…

The Belgian Town Where the Mentally Ill Are Part of the Community

The treatment of mental illness has often involved removing patients from society and placing them in their own institutions.

Ellsworth Kelly Explains His Relationship to Abstraction

"I've always lived in the present tense, and I like my paintings to be in the present tense," Ellsworth Kelly begins his interview with the San…