Slate Magazine - Art

The surreal, high-concept showmanship of Urs Fischer.

Ben Davis — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:27:25 EST

The surreal, high-concept showmanship of Urs Fischer.

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Watteau at the Met.

Christopher Benfey — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:08:26 EST

What accounts for his enduring, elusive appeal?

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum.

Fred Kaplan — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:20:35 EST

Click here for a slide show about the art and architecture of New York's Guggenheim Museum.

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The American West in photographs at MoMA.

Sarah Boxer — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:53:35 EST

Click here to read a slide-show essay on photography and the American West..

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A generation of plastic art objects are degrading like overused Tupperware. Can they be saved?

Sam Kean — Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:32:03 EST

In the early 1960s, curators at the Philadelphia Museum of Art noticed something funny about one of their modern-art sculptures: It smelled like vinegar. Worse, the once-clear plastic sculpture had begun browning like an apple, and cracks had appeared on its surface. By 1967, Naum Gabo's translucent, airy Construction in Space: Two Cones looked like Tupperware that had gone through the dishwasher too often.

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