Weekend
Required Reading
This week, Crazy Rich Asians flops at the box office in China, artists are quitting Instagram, an LA mural sparks debate, and more.
The Latest
Art • Weekend
The Multiple Personae in Edward Burne-Jones’s Paintings
The Pre-Raphaelite artist mixed horror and decadence to create a feeling of unnaturalness.
Art • Weekend
The Parallel Worlds of Philip Guston and Saul Steinberg
Guston and Steinberg are unclassifiable figures who satirized political figures, artists, poseurs, and American consumerism.
Art • Weekend
Mark Grotjahn Checks All the Boxes
One or two of the paintings in Grotjahn’s latest show might be interesting to look at, but a giant gallery space full of them becomes overbearing and tedious.
Opinion • Weekend
The Whitney’s Dilemma
The Whitney has not had the moral courage to reject support from a benefactor who generated his wealth in socially irresponsible ways.
Drawing in a Time of Fear & Lies • Weekend
Me and Bobby Mueller
Turn the screw, Bob, align our spine.
Performance • Weekend
Peter Brook’s Meditation on Guilt
The Prisoner conjures a timelessness that recalls Waiting for Godot.
Art • Weekend
Making American Labor Visible Again
Though officially outlawed in 1865, the de facto continuation of slavery remains a repulsive American secret.
Art • Weekend
Hoarding and Spending at Art Basel Miami Beach
After Safariland, if you need to convince yourself that the art world isn’t entirely in money’s thrall, you’d want to be anywhere but here.
Art
Finding the Heart of a Nation in Generations of Black Art
Why a truthful account of artistic development in the United States during the latter half of the 20th century must include the artists shown in this exhibition.
Books
An Artist Finds His Muse in a Hallucinogenic Drug
Joe Roberts’s latest book, filled with color and mystical symbology, connects creativity and psychedelics.
News
#MeToo Protesters Call Out Sexual Assault Allegations at India’s Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Protesters interrupted a Guerilla Girls Q&A to call out the administration’s lack of action after a co-curator and significant donor were publicly accused of sexual misconduct.