Great art penetrates, for better or worse. It gets “inside” and lingers there; it excites emotions, makes you feel elated, vulnerable, mortal. If great art penetrates, does aesthetic experience entail ...

The new book by Lauren Elkin examines artists who’ve defied conventions and expectations, including Carolee Schneemann, Eva Hesse and Kara Walker. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently ...

There came a point when Lauren Elkin realized her book-in-progress was becoming a blob. As the writer Chris Kraus defines it: “the book as Blob, swallowing and engorging … Unwise and unstoppable.” ...

I’m thinking about Marin Kosut’s “Art Monster” as I walk through a former high school turned art gallery in Claverack, N.Y. I’m thinking about who decides what is and what isn’t art; what is a ...

TOM GARRIS WENT TO CHECK IT OUT. INSIDE THIS PORTSMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL ART CLASS, MONSTERS ARE COMING ALIVE. SOME STICKING OUT. BIG TONGUES, OTHERS WITH MENACING LOOKS. BUT THERE’S ALSO THE CUTE AND ...

If you’ve ever had a friend who is brilliant, super-sarcastic, notices everything, can be incredibly mean but always employs that anger in the service of some greater ideal, then you will recognize ...