Art Review
Leonardo Madriz’s Monuments to the Precarity of Now
His sculptures are a striking metaphor for the fragile equilibrium of American life.
Jonah Goldman Kay
Jonah Goldman Kay is a writer and editor currently based in Eastern Europe.
Art
What Can We Learn from the History of Sleep?
Whether in a 17th-century mansion, an imagined Georgian bedroom, or a contemporary loft, the unconscious experience remains unadulterated.
Art
New Arts Center Aims to Put Sicily Back on the Art World Map
ZACentrale aspires to develop the Italian city of Palermo as a regional art hub while serving its distinctive local community.
Art
Prague’s First Private Museum Is Haunted by the Specter of Communism
Kunsthalle Praha is determined to walk the line between East and West, past and present.
Art
The Evolution of Instagram Activism
Many activist graphics on Instagram are deeply indebted to the visual language developed by W.E.B. Du Bois in his data portraits and the long history of visual activism.
Books
Shahidul Alam’s Firsthand Account of Bangladesh’s Fight for Democracy
The Tide Will Turn centers on the 100 days the esteemed photographer spent in prison for protesting Bangladesh’s religious, nationalist government, but also wisely focuses on the conditions that made his arrest inevitable.
Books
In Sienese Paintings a Writer Finds Sanctuaries that Allow Him to Grieve
While in Siena, memoir author Hisham Matar turns to his own love of paintings by the Sienese School,and spends hours, days even, in front of a single work.
Art
An Unlikely Scottish Archive Sheds Light on Romanian Art During Socialism
The exhibition 24 Arguments,which emerged from research conducted by the Institute of the Present, offers works that are heavily influenced by newly forged global dialogues.
Art
Revitalizing the Culture of Palestinian Food
The Palestine Hosting Society project, founded and directed by Mirna Bamieh, usually begins with research into a city or family’s food practices and culminates in a hosted “table,” where this research is presented to a group of invited guests.