I return to a perennial theme, one I have written about here and here :  the raising of music by a group, to celebrate ourselves, so alo...

I have been re-visiting The Armory Show all year, in this year of its centennial.  Such a powerful outpouring of commentary and commemora...

I have been thinking about titles recently, in particular really long titles, and what they can mean, or not.  For instance, Rina Ban...

Enduring mystery:  the vagaries of taste, the creation of the canon, who's in and who's out in the great salon. Why does one gene...

Artists and artisans of every possible stripe, editors, publishers, gallerists, curators, producers of theatricals: all are (too often un...

Andrew Losowsky, senior books editor at the Huffington Post , recently observed that print culture--far from dying as a result of the dig...

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Barbara Remington's Covers for the 1965 Ballantine Paperback Edition of LOTR (photo of copies from the 21st printing, 1968; from...

That's No Rabbit (2007; mixed media collage) [All artwork and images copyrighted to the artist, Caroline Golden, and used here sol...

Three weeks ago the Whitney installed in "the prow" of the Flatiron a life-size cut-out replica of Hopper's Nighthawks--...

Head of a Queen Mother ( Iyoba ), Edo Peoples, Kingdom of Benin (Within Territory of Nigeria Today), c. 1750-1800 At the Metropolitan...

Voyager 1 sails on, over 11 billion miles from Earth, the farthest out any human-made object has ever been...scientists are debating whet...

Robert Motherwell   David Reed [Images found on the Web; artists and/or his legal representatives hold the copyright; us...

Turner, Chichester Canal (c. 1828; in the Tate) Jennifer L. Roberts  ( Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard   ) r...

Lisa Occhipinti [As always, all images and the objects they depict are copyrighted to the artist and/or his/her legal representati...

The heat and humidity intensified this week in NYC...it is just too hot (canary feathers singed and drooping) and humid (even lobsters n...

Raqib Shaw, Adam (2008) For more of his work, click here .    And here . The dog days of summer came early this year in New York ...

Sarah Charlesworth , one of the pioneers in Conceptual Art, died two weeks ago. The Lobster and the Canary are fascinated by her s...

I return often to Rauschenberg 's collages and combines, seeing in them the felt but not-yet-written stories that attend my night-tho...

Johann Zoffany, Tribuna of the Uffizi (1772-1778) As we prepare for an ever more cybernetic future, we stumble over boundaries we m...