With his extreme performance art, Tehching Hsieh gave the word endurance new meaning. In retirement, he’s working on cementing his legacy.
Category: Art
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New Mexico Is Where the Outlaw Artists Live
Over the past century, the state has provided refuge for renegades like Agnes Martin and Judy Chicago. It still does, even with a new wave of arrivals closing in.
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Why Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch Escaped to Rural Ohio
A visit to Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch’s compound in the sticks.
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Two Architects Built an Inventive Home for Themselves
During the early pandemic, two architects found most of their jobs on hold. It was time to get creative.
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T’s Art Issue: The Power of Saying No
T looks at some of contemporary art’s genuine iconoclasts — celebrated recluses and others who’ve managed to create an alternate way of being a creative person in a world that sometimes scoffs at privacy.
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The Secret Art of David Hammons
Through interviews with some of his colleagues and collaborators — and several rare images — T considers the last half-century of an elusive artist’s practice.
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Following Norway’s National Painter Through a Landscape of Mountains and Fjords
Harald Sohlberg is celebrated within his native country and almost unknown outside it. A writer goes in search of the artist’s inspiration in Norway’s ‘overwhelming nature.’
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Adam Dressner’s Subjects Step Out of His Paintings in Grand Central Show
Adam Dressner, a lawyer turned portrait artist, began painting eccentric New Yorkers a few years ago. Many of them made an appearance at a recent exhibition.
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Some of America’s Best Art Is in the Yard
For people who have historically been excluded by museums and galleries, their own properties have became a source of inspiration.
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Lloyd Macklowe, Leading Purveyor of Art Nouveau, Is Dead at 90
He and his wife began buying pieces to furnish their apartment. They wound up with a museum-quality collection and a pre-eminent retail business.
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What Happens When Artists Start Going to Therapy?
In a number of exhibitions on view this year, people are pushing back on the cliché of suffering being essential to art, embracing recovery and wellness instead.
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Yvette Mayorga Bakes Family History Into Her Show ‘The Golden Cage’
This Mexican American artist, whose favorite tool is a pastry bag, explores her parents’ journey and her own identity in “The Golden Cage,” a show in Guadalajara.