Decode the Art Fair Lingo With Our Armory Show Bingo Card

Sep 2, 2025

Each year, come September, we all pretend the world isn’t burning and put on our best oversized shirt to work our way through the maze of booths that is New York’s Armory Show. For those of you who want to know where to go and what to see, here’s our...

The Prescient Politics of Nancy Buchanan’s Art

Sep 2, 2025

LOS ANGELES — Truthfully, Nancy Buchanan: A Retrospective at the Brick, a comprehensive survey of the LA-based artist’s work, is as sprawling and diverse as the city she calls home. Buchanan studied art at the University of California, Irvine, from 1965 to 1971, along...

An Impressionist’s Ode to Male Sensuality

Sep 2, 2025

CHICAGO — The Impressionist artists working in France in the 1800s clearly liked women. While landscapes and still lifes studded their oeuvres, they turned repeatedly to the subjects of dancers, opera singers, boaters, bathers, strollers, book readers, barmaids, and...

The Rise of Contemporary Art Puzzles

Sep 2, 2025

When Rami Metal walks through the scores of booths at the Armory Show, he looks not only for attention-grabbing paintings but also those that would make great puzzles. “I try to find things that are more detailed and have more variance of color,” he said. “If you have...

The Fetishistic Fiction of Museum “Tibetan” Shrines

Sep 2, 2025

If American museums were the only source of information about Tibetan Buddhist shrines, one would come away with the impression that shrines are elaborate, pristine environments layered with thangka paintings and silken finery amidst rows of statuary and ritual...