Spencer Nelson
Posts written by Spencer Nelson
Ed Ruscha is a key figure in Los Angeles’s ongoing battle for recognition as a center for fine art.
Weegee: apolitical paparazzi, ambulance-and-cop-chasing cameramen, and high art photographer.
In an exhibition spanning four decades, the Morgan Library showcases Josef Albers’ Homages to the Square. The German, a shamus of color and its capabilities, took cues from pre-Colombian, Bauhaus and mid-20th century American art to craft a powerfully unique form of expression.
MoMA celebrates Quentin Tarantino and LACMA recognizes Stanley Kubrick (though the locations are mildly ironic).
The end of summer is approaching and all your unfulfilled fantasies of a season of adventure and self-improvement may be crashing down, but we have a three-step antidote to indolence-induced guilt.
The price of art has increased immensely over the past decade, but so has the price of training artists.
Wondering about the strange Olympic decor? Do the rules of Badminton elude you?
Winkleman Gallery revives history painting.
The ten-member band are on trial for staging a “punk prayer” in Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral.
The man was an enigmatic figure: aristocratic yet populist, broadminded yet abrasive and intolerant.
“Plagiarism should be celebrated,” declares Chris Habib, author of Plagiarist and organizer of Printed Matter’s group exhibition HELP/LESS.
Nietzsche the Nazi? You can blame the philosopher’s sister for that slander.
