Fiber Art Is Finally Being Taken Seriously
IN FEBRUARY OF 1969, by a first-floor window that looked out on 53rd Street, the Museum of Modern Art in New York installed a work by a then-34-year-old artist named…
Land Art Today, Beyond Cowboys With Bulldozers
I’m standing in a fallow field on the edge of the San Luis Valley, in south-central Colorado. To the east, beyond a windbreak of tough old trees, the Great Sand…
In Jail, Writing in Short Bursts as Therapy and Performance Art
Before handing pencil and paper to a group of inmates who attended one of his recent writing workshops in jail, Nate Johnson shared three things about his past. He is…
On Fire Island, a Home for Art — and the Artists Who Make It
THERE’S A DISTINCT palette to Fire Island Pines, the gay beach getaway a two-hour train ride from New York City. Boxy houses and boardwalks made of untreated cedar have gone…
Hezbollah Sanctions Case Highlights Frailties in the Art Market
Earlier this year, a Lebanese art collector was accused of money laundering and violating terrorism-related sanctions in a federal indictment that focused attention on the reported beneficiary of some of…
Korean Experimental Art Gets a Star Turn at the Guggenheim
The 1960s and 1970s were tumultuous in South Korea, with a military dictatorship pushing breakneck economic growth and suppressing civil rights. In the midst of this upheaval, young artists pursued…