Lisa Paul Streitfeld

The star clouds that form the Milky Way were seen as the tree of life where all life came from... Every winter solstice when the earth made its way around the sun it appeared to move against the background stars... the sun conjoined the crossing point of Milky Way where...

It takes nerve to name your rock n' roll band THE ART and then select an infamous prankster's riff on Andy Warhol's death mask for the cover of your provocative premiere album: THE ART: Here Comes the War.

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Last week, President Barack Obama declared he was left at the altar by Speaker John Boehner....

"Suitcase" 1964, Boris Lurie, Courtesy of the Boris Lurie Foundation

Only if it had arrived in a suitcase could the entrance of renegade Boris Lurie and his NO!art movement into a museum have been more fitting.

Tucked away into a back...

Who is Mary Magdalene really?

We know she was involved with Jesus...but how?

As his disciple?

Spiritual companion?

Or perhaps his wife?

Shahram Karimi: The Rose Garden of Remembrance at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery in Manhattan

Shahram Karimi is the consummate artist, master of many mediums: painting, drawing, collage, set design, video and poetry. This Iranian born prophet...

"To Breathe: Invisible Mirror" a stunning light and sound video by Kimsooja set the stage for the evening.

Marek Bartelik, AICA-USA President, greets the audience at the 27th annual AICA...

Now that Lady Gaga has announced the birth of the new post-patriarchal female archetype by her 2011 Grammy performance busting out of a semi-transparent egg, where she claims to have incubated for 72 hours...

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The "Handless Maiden" of the Grimm's fairy tale... can be seen as representing a feminine being -in-the-world that is psychically so bedeviled by the patriarchal attitude that the emblematic hands of self-expression are rendered passive. Or, alternately, the story points to a need for inner reflection, rather than active...

Here is George Clooney filming in the United States Capitol.

No wait a minute, here is George Clooney with U.S. Senator Dick Lugar inside the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Very Presidential...

...as Piers Morgan expressed...

Niki de Saint Phalle's Black Rosy is an iconic work representing the shadow of Eros that would be repressed by feminist criticism in the years to come.

All too often in the course of human evolution, the ground marked for rebirth...

Female artists are generally incensed by the portrayal of female sexuality in Black Swan. Looking at the film through the conventional feminist lens, they are asking: "Why does a woman still need to use her sexuality to move ahead in her career?"

This refers to the dancer...

Aldo Tambellini, Black on White and Red, 1961

Art generally anticipates scientific revisions of reality. Even after these revisions have been expressed in scholarly physics journals, artists continue to create images that are consonant with these insights. Yet, a biographical search of the artists' letters,...

Penetration. I was uttering the very word while examining the startling brute force of these images in John McWhinnie's office at Glen Horowitz Bookseller's post Upper East Side address when a suited man started pacing furtively on the gallery floor. Shifting his...

In a final public adieu to postmodernism, Ralph Lemon transported himself into a multimedia star of a new constellation with his national tour of How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?

Who could have imagined that such large-scale digital works could be modernist? Digital art seemed to be the providence of the postmodern, a receptacle for the Xeroxing of the Xerox, a dicing and splicing of consensus reality until any struggle for meaning is lost....