Pee-wee as Himself, Matt Wolf’s surprisingly frank documentary about Paul Reubens, has an unusual goal. “I wanted to make a portrait of Paul as an artist,” Wolf says, “and not to tell the story of the ...

Robert Frank’s films include The Sin of Jesus, his 1961 adaptation of an Isaac Babel short story; OK End Here (1963), an intimate chamber piece featuring an original score by the great free jazz ...

Join Lola Flash and five friends as they reminisce about art and community when the AIDS epidemic tore through NYC in the 1980s and ’90s.

June 18, 1920 Fumaria officinalis (Common Fumitory) The Fumaria has a sensitive nature spirit, it tries to incorporate both ascending and descending energies. Its flower is wispy, seemingly without ...

“It’s like a fellow I once knew in El Paso. One day, he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him that same question, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘It seemed to be a good idea at ...

Connie Butler: Em 1957, Lygia Clark fez um grupo de pinturas chamado Planos em Superfície Modulada. Aqui, novamente, Clark está usando essa ideia da espiral ou do pivô em torno de algum eixo central ...

In France, the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded in 1648 under the aegis of Louis XIV, began organizing an annual exhibition in 1667. Because the recurring location for this event was ...

On Valentine’s Day 1970, David Mancuso began hosting regular, invitation-only dance parties at his home at 647 Broadway in New York City. Initially started as a way to make rent, these weekly ...

Abel Rodríguez is a sage of the Nonuya people, who live in the Amazon rainforest. He is known as a “plant namer” because of his astonishing ability to remember the wide range of vegetable and animal ...

I do not remember when I first met Richard Serra. But I do remember the first time I was bowled over by his work. It was in the fall of 1996 when I saw the monumental 58x64x70—the title describes the ...

Martha Naranjo Sandoval, Matarile Ediciones I started at Dashwood Books, a store specializing in art books, particularly photography. At a certain point I realized that by working there I had access ...

The commanding painter Brice Marden died last month at the age of 84. He was making art until his final days, in a six-decade career that was centered in New York and included early stints as a guard ...