Weekend
Required Reading
This week, Warhol’s first self-portrait goes to auction, Sam Durant speaks about “Scaffold,” India’s problem with architectural preservation, Zadie Smith on black pain, the six people who created “Silence = Death,” and more.
The Latest
Weekend
Weekend Words: Tape
“Which came first, the intestine or the tapeworm?”
Galleries • Weekend
The Homages and Inventions of a Self-Taught Painter
Peter Shear is working through every form of abstraction, figuring out what paint can do.
Weekend
The Case for Tom Burckhardt
He resists institutional notions of what an abstract painting can be.
Drawing in a Time of Fear & Lies • Weekend
Decoding the Trump Regime
What good can political art do?
Museums • Weekend
The Sexual Ambiguity of Henry Darger’s Vivian Girls
An exhibition sheds new light on the Chicago recluse’s most provocative images.
Music • Weekend
Trapped by Tropes: Spoon, The New Pornographers, Alt-J, Charly Bliss
New albums by four indie-rock bands recycle and repurpose decades-old sounds, sometimes striking out and sometimes succeeding.
Museums • Weekend
The Contested Histories of Water
Two group shows make the case that, even at its most innocuous, water still poses hidden dangers.
Museums • Weekend
The Open-Ended Narratives of a Small Museum
What if Abstract Expressionism never happened?
In Brief
New York Congresswoman Proposes Student Loan Relief for Arts Workers
Under Rep. Nydia Velázquez’s new bill, arts workers who provide services to seniors, children, or adolescents would qualify for $10,000 of student loan forgiveness.
Film
A German Filmmaker Who Captured the Poetics of Labor and the Legacy of Fascism
The Film Society of Lincoln Center is presenting A Vision of Resistance: Peter Nestler , the first large retrospective dedicated to the filmmaker in the US.
Articles
Jordan Wolfson Evades the Politics of His Violent Images
At a screening of his work at the New Museum, the artist failed to acknowledge the privilege that lets him reduce violence to an aesthetic form.