Required Reading
This week, the world’s most beautiful libraries, what art can do that journalism can’t, the future of surveillance, leaving Instagram, and more.
The Latest
Music • Weekend
On the Margins of Country Music
We’re witnessing a transitional moment for the country music genre that opens up space for weirdness and experimentation.
Art • Weekend
Paintings of Bodily Residue and Extra-Long Tongues
In Emily Furr’s paintings, objects penetrate the openings of other objects, but the body is nowhere to be seen.
Art • Weekend
The Power of Painterly Innocence
Billy White’s artistic kinships seem to be more personal and experiential than cultural or racial.
Drawing in a Time of Fear & Lies • Weekend
Channeling Our Collective Fury
There is an old adage that nothing brings people closer together than discovering that they hate the same person.
Articles • Weekend
“We Live in a Nuthouse!”: Zero Mostel on Art, Politics and America
Mostel perceives that drip paintings can express the scrambled feeling in your mind when you hear the federal government say that you can survive a nuclear war.
Art • Weekend
Refuse Transformed: Reuse as Social Repair
These assemblages showcase art’s power and, poignantly its limitations, to effect material transformations.
Art • Weekend
Pure Paint, Impurely Deployed
Jason Stopa is a historically savvy painter whose approach to Pop Formalism can cut either way, toward reflexive irony or an expanded employment of the language of paint.
In Brief
MoMA Staff Secures Museum-Wide Raises After Four Months of Union Bargaining
The parties settled on a five-year contract, ratified by a 96% margin, in which employee health benefits, salary raises, and chances for upward mobility in the MoMA ranks were put forth.
In Brief
Vandalized Artwork Commemorating Dead Refugees Will Symbolically Remain in Destroyed Condition
When artist Banu Cennetoğlu’s “The List” was mysteriously removed from the Liverpool Biennial, some thought it could have been a mistake. Now there’s evidence that the tear down was intentional.
In Brief
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City Flooded by Vandals
This summer has seen a string of racially motivated acts of vandalism across the country. Is the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Missouri white supremacy’s latest victim?
Articles
A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in California, Idaho, Illinois, New York, and North Carolina.