From June 1942 until its dissolution in 1945, the Office of War Information (OWI) generated public support for World War II, ...

When I work, I accumulate a great deal of material,” artist Mary Ellen Carroll once remarked, “and I need some way of ...

Last November I spotted an unusually mundane poster at Printed Matter, the nonprofit bookseller that once served as the distribution arm of New York’s Conceptual art scene. The print, designed by ...

The German American artist Eva Hesse kept meticulous diaries throughout the late sixties and seventies that account for both her personal and professional anxieties, her creative process and ...

1. Writing is a way of loving. To love is to give life, continuity. This is a story about lives that were not meant to go on. But they did go on. Soon after artist Gabrielle Goliath was informed that ...

So many books have been written on the art and music of New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s that one imagines the texts on the much-romanticized period, stacked end to end, could reach the ...

I got lost several times on my way to Casa Susanna, the exhibition I had set out to write about. It was a sticky Friday night in July—“date night” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as the Met ...

Contemporary histories of Los Angeles seem to come in two main forms. The first, as exemplified by the indispensable work of the writer Mike Davis, deals with the existential problem of the city ...

When my family left Seoul for New York, my mother’s struggle henceforth became one of reclaiming her life as a homemaker, which she felt she was at risk of losing when she began what would become a ...

Staging a major retrospective of Edmund Alleyn as a flagship summer show is a bold move on the part of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Alleyn, who was born in Quebec City in 1931, and died ...

I first saw Martin Wong’s prison paintings when I visited a two-person exhibition of Wong and the contemporary painter Aaron Gilbert at PPOW Gallery in 2021. Five of them were included in the show. I ...

“I don’t ever want to live in one place again,” Paul Thek declares in a letter to Peter Hujar in 1968, “too many pretty places in the world.” Both Paul and Peter are deeply New York artists; that’s ...