Will Heinrich

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Will Heinrich

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Critic’s PickIn his largest ever American institutional show, at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the nonagenarian painter is an unparalleled master of black.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Will Heinrich

In 1978, turning television footage into a work of art wasn’t as easy as opening up your smartphone or computer. As artist Dara Birnbaum told Frieze magazine in 2022, there was no home video recording equipment, and “it was illegal to record any imagery from television, punishable by stringent mandates.”But she felt it was important to pay attention to the medium that Americans were spending, on average, nearly one-third of their lives consuming.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Will Heinrich

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. As early as the 1970s, she demonstrated that mass media was fair game as artistic material, and that its power could be turned against itself. Listen to this article · 7:35 min Learn moreThe video artist Dara Birnbaum in 2023. “Television was a one-way medium, its audience tending to become passive,” she said.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Will Heinrich

He designed innovative houses and sculptures, but his most visible role in New York City's cultural life was as an accidental restaurateur, running the venerable Fanelli Cafe. Hans Noë, an architect, sculptor and accidental restaurateur who was best known for his meticulous revival of one of New York City's oldest bars, died on May 11 at his home in Garrison, N.Y. He was 96. His death, in his sleep, was confirmed by his son Alva Noë.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Will Heinrich

In a spectacular exhibition at Karma Gallery, the 98-year-old artist makes hardwood sculptures that burst with vitality and variation. The first sculpture in Thaddeus Mosley's spectacular show " Proximity " is an assembly of four roughly wishbone-shaped pieces of carved walnut that stands 6 ½ feet tall. He calls it "Arboreal Choreography." Seen from the gallery's front door it does indeed bring to mind a well-dressed dancer in a self-conscious pose, thumbs in braces, one toe raised.