Stories By Alix McKenna
Art
The Most Offensive Painting Ever Made
June 5, 2025Yiull Damaso has achieved a true artistic milestone. He has created what is quite possibly the...
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Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
June 3, 2025How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Art
Paul Emmanuel: Transitions: Identity Construction in South Africa
May 31, 2025As Emmanuel watched black and white soldiers go through the same seminal moment of transition, he...
Art
Arizona and the Politics of Mural Painting
May 28, 2025Murals are designed to unite communities, create beauty and celebrate common values. The horrific reaction to...
Art
Alice Leora Briggs: Art from Juárez
May 27, 2025While Briggs subject matter is unpleasant, her work has a dark beauty and an immediacy not...
Art
Art Review: Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn, Washington, DC
May 27, 2025In one of Klein’s, racier projects, the Anthropometry series, the artist dressed to the nines and...
After Image
Pritzker Prize goes to Bowery Museum’s Architects
May 23, 2025The 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize was awarded to the Japanese duo, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa....
Architecture
Recycling Meets Recreation
May 21, 2025Last year Macro-Sea conceived of the Dumpster Pool. The designers constructed what they call a "lo-fi...
Art
The Life and Work of Eadweard Muybridge
May 21, 2025Muybridge had married his young assistant, in 1871. After a while, he began to suspect that...
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Artist’s Blacklist Fights Speculation
May 18, 2025Although the market has been good to Ms. Dumas, the artist’s distaste for speculative art buyers...
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