“The reality of the 'mass naked happening' seemed to lie in the media, in the pictures, in the gesture — which meant nothing except insofar as it was reported”
Originally published February 1, 1968
Marina Abramovic and Ulay's 12-Year Partnership in Art and Life Comes to a Spectacular End on the Great Wall of China
Originally published February 14, 1988
“What happened was we had ... my wife is an artist and I am an artist and we had a quarrel about the fact that I was more, eh, exposed to the public than she was and she went to the bedroom and I went after her and she went out of the window”
Originally published March 29, 1988
“Basquiat has absorbed every trick in contemporary painting's book at an astoundingly early age. He's so precocious he's practically old before his time”
June 29, 2020
“What I missed immediately was the figure of Jean himself, one of the most beautiful young men — with one of the most original minds — I have ever met”
Originally published August 30, 1988
What if you love art AND baseball? In the Eighties, Voice critic Peter Schjeldahl had the answer.
Originally published October 12, 1982
Alexandra Bell challenges the media's coverage of people of color one poster at a time
July 19, 2017