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David Diao uses Barnett Newman as a sounding board to explore his own fascination with the artist and the contradictory legacies of modernism.

The interdisciplinary and experimental nature of the ArtCenter College of Design’s graduate art program was on full display at its MFA Open Studios.

With four surveys, the challenging Los Angeles artist has redefined his art form in a flat-screen world.

Rachel Kushner on What She Takes From Art (and Artists) Her books are filled with insights into art world types and their relationships to the wider world. At her home in Los Angeles, Rachel Kushner talks about “The Hard Crowd,” her new book of essays on cultural criticism, and her enduring interest in visual art.Credit...Clifford Prince King for The New York Times By Jonathan Griffin April 23, 2021, 9:01 a.m. ET LOS ANGELES — At one point in Rachel Kushner’s recently published novella, “The Mayor of Leipzig,” the narrator, an American artist, reveals: “I personally know the aut...

JACK PIERSON’S SILVER JACKIE looks like nothing much: a rickety little postage stamp of a stage, just a raised platform made by the artist himself, and he says he’s no carpenter. (“Those early stage pieces I did myself—and I’m not a woodworker—so they have a real slapdash quality.”) Behind the stage, there’s a silver Mylar curtain that I can’t pry apart from my memories of 1970s Christmas decorations. It looks cheap; the materials are cheap. This sort of bedraggled, taped-together curtain and stage feel appropriate to those venues that one comes to with few expectations. Th...