The first time I saw Barnett Newman's Onement 1 (1948), I voiced in abject perplexity, "what is it?" Little did I know that this was precisely the question Newman wanted me to ask, so he could answer, while stifling a chuckle, "it is...what it is."

Cathy Wilkes is an artist from Northern Ireland. She is best known for her sculptural installations which explore the conceptual and emotional resonances of found objects. In 2008 she was nominated for the turner prize and if you follow the link below you

Last week New York met two powerhouse week-long event series: Independent Booksellers Week NYC and PERFORMA 09; pedestrian interests and chores distracted me from both and, come Monday, I realized I had not seen any of the previous week's abundant excitements.

Continuing on our "Archive" theme... UbuWeb is a great repository for avant-garde materials - writings, soundfiles, etc. Begun by poet Kenneth Goldsmith (very interesting poet I might add!) in 1996 as a site documenting concrete poetry, it has since expanded into

I'm still fuming about this but a little less than ten years ago. From the National Endowment for the Arts website: -May 07, 2009- Washington, D.C. – Today, details of the Fiscal Year 2010 budget request for

In the October 8 issue of The New York Review of Books, artist, art historian, and critic Julian Bell offers a sumptuous interpretation of two recent publications on art history and aesthetics, Art Without Borders: A Philosophical Exploration of Art and

The first decade of the new millennium has been rich in works of art that are cross disciplinary, forward-thinking yet steeped in the past, and capable of inspiring people to think differently. Here are ten artists whose work exemplifies the

Mediums contribute to the rise of social practices that circumscribe them and subsequently foster or frustrate their use. The three concepts below have captured the imagination of luminaries in film, literature, and liberal arts, and illustrate some of the challenges associated

Aphasic Letters is a kind of Internet-birthed Pallas Athena. Few of my favorite literary works of the past year or so have not found some relation to Aphasic or its two founders, Danny Snelson and Phoebe Springstubb. Nurtured by the Internet's wealth

Good news in a saggy economy—North Drive Press #5, the final edition, is going to print and will be ready this Fall. I wanted to mention NDP today so Art + Culture readers will watch for it and support this very

Ben Lewis' documentary on Relational Art. http://www.ubu.com/film/relational.html

Snippits, brief thoughts, whatnot… Rogue Wave 2009 at LA Louver – I went because it’s the Rogue Wave show, and because Kaz Oshiro was in it. Turns out someone I sort of know (Tia Pulitzer) was in it. Her work stood out atSuperficiality and Superexcrescence at