The psychiatrists are at it again, defining mental "disorders." “This is not cardiology or nephrology, where the basic diseases are well known,” said Edward Shorter, a leading historian of psychiatry whose latest book, …
He'd write an "event score" -- "printed on a small white card that he would mail to friends.... Mr. Brecht said that he did not care if any of his event scores were realized and that he did not think that there…
"Do you really think the Virgin Mary went around dressed as you depict her? I assure you she dressed like a poor girl, simply and modestly, and was so well-covered that all you could see were her eyes....” IN THE COMMENTS: S…
"Unless you want to glue your lungs together or glue your eyelids to your eyeballs, you absolutely must follow these safety rules." Art project you don't even want to think about doing. Or, really, the art project …
But if I look at it for more than a few seconds, I get nauseated and on the verge of a seizure, so I don't know what to think of this new form of visual humor. Seriously, now, just thinking of looking at that page again mak…
"It was a not very tall candelabra of old bronze and artistic workmanship. It consisted of a group: on the pedestal stood two female figures in the costume of Eve and in attitudes for the description of which I have neither …
I was making fun of that muddle of images from a NYT article. In the comments, Reader_iam exclaimed: OH THE VISUALS, OH THE VISUALS! OH MY [MIND'S] EYES! OH MY [MIND'S] EYES! What an onslaught of imagery! An assault, rea…
"I guess it means that people would rather put their money into butterflies than banks — seems like a better world today to me." £111 million for Damien Hirst.
Is this the education you want your lawyer to have? It's lawyerly: looking for loopholes. IN THE COMMENTS: George underlines a point I only suggested: It's not Outsider Art. To be an Outsider Artist, you must possess som…
Lininess! The liney/painterly dichotomy persists to this day, and in the century since [Winslow] Homer's last works it has taken many forms. The dry, burnished literalism of Grant Wood and Charles Sheeler followed the ebullie…
Performance artist Yazmany Arboleda set up a show called "The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama" in the storefront across the street from the NYT offices. Police and the Secret Service s…
I saw 2 art exhibitions this weekend. One was the bright, poppy Takashi Murakami show at the Brooklyn Museum: This survey of Takashi Murakami, the artist frequently called the Japanese Andy Warhol, has it all: immense, toylike s…
... dementia. From 1997 until her death 10 years later, Dr. Adams underwent periodic brain scans that gave her physicians remarkable insights to the changes in her brain. “In 2000, she suddenly had a little trouble finding words,…
In the Oceania room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ADDED: Since commenters seem unfamiliar with human costumery, let me add this picture I took a few weeks ago at the Museum of Natural History. (These are African.)
A slim young man draws the hand of a hulky ancient: Women huddle in threes and concern themselves with very old things: Think about them all you want: They will never think about you: