Charissa N. Terranova

No longer mere housewifery, sewing is the work of smart, cutting-edge artists. Stitching, knitting, embroidering, crocheting, weaving, suturing: these are the acts of those who make the powerfully splayed, the…

Gone are the days when art raised political consciousness, or are they? Is it true that we live in a collective miasma of what the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk calls…

A bulbous, overstuffed body meets blinking eyes on flat screens in the work of Witness, where the artist Frances Bagley achieves a tour de force combining fuzzy, touchable matter and…

Sometimes it is worth it to over-interpret a work of art. Finding meaning where there is little to none not only feels good, but is what art critics do well…

To call upon “animal spirits” is to invoke the irrational and uncontained. John Maynard Keynes, economist and philosophical forebear of the welfare state, renewed the term in the 20th century…

Ted Kincaid invents unrealities through photography, and in the process he reinvents the medium. If the photograph has always been about a negotiation between the original and the copy, reality…

There is a clever gender technique at work in the art of Margaret Meehan and Lesley Dill: a manner of bearing sexual specifics through form while avoiding one-liners, propaganda and…

There is nothing terribly radical or decadent about saying that meaning and art are odd bedfellows.

Mel Ziegler has put balloons in the gallery. Warhol did it. Koons did it too.

To over-determine a work of art, finding meaning where there is none, might well be the bane of good art and a healthy art culture, not to mention a would-be…