Required Reading
This week, the beautiful new Green New Deal video, Edward Gorey’s life as art, a really bad review of DC’s Tintoretto exhibition, a David Lynch cameo, and more.
The Latest
Music • Weekend
Billie Eilish’s Creepy, Crawly Pop
Eilish’s debut album is an exercise in comic horror.
Books • Weekend
Wallace Berman’s Magical World
If you have any interest in the wild array of people who defined the West Coast bohemian world, you must read Tosh Berman’s Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World.
Art • Weekend
The Pleasures of DIY Art
Is amusement now considered taboo?
News
A Heated Fifth Week of Protest at the Whitney Museum Centers Palestinian Liberation
Protesters were challenged by disgruntled museumgoers, youth organizers performed a Dabka, and activists gave impassioned speeches about Whitney vice chair Warren Kanders’s association with Palestine through weapons companies.
Art • Weekend
A Showcase for Shintō’s Gods
An exhibition of rarely seen, ancient art explores the complex ideas and rich expressions of Japan’s indigenous religion.
Art • Weekend
System and Sensibility: Dorothea Rockburne at Dia:Beacon
Rockburne insists that her work has a mathematical basis, yet her most moving creations are those least tethered to a methodical, rational approach.
Art • Weekend
Reinhard Mucha’s Unsettling Precision
Mucha’s reflective sculptures ensure that while looking at one work, viewers are aware of others and our presence among them.
Books • Weekend
Is It Beautiful, or Is It Art?
We philosophers love to argue, and so when I say that Thierry de Duve offers a lot to argue with, I mean that as sincere high praise.
In Brief
Canadian Museums Association Receives $1M to Preserve and Advance Indigenous Culture
The program will fund initiatives through the CMA’s network of 2,600 museums and cultural institutions.
In Brief
The Whitney Museum Launches Digital Resource for Past Biennials
The open archive provides public access to information about artists and their artworks dating back to the biennial’s first edition in 1932.
Comics
Hilma af Klint Inspires an Artist to Take a Closer Look
She was an artist who believed in progress, in the evolution of humanity.