Art
The Ghosts of Our Future Climate at Storm King
A group exhibition featuring almost 20 artists suggests directions for visual art in response to climate change.
Louis Bury
Books
Mirtha Dermisache's Writing Is a Rorschach test
Dermisache's drawings posture as communication yet undercut it through illegibility.
Art
Mary Mattingly's Poetry of Things
Mattingly makes the case that poetry is precisely what’s missing from mainstream responses to anthropogenic climate change.
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Kay Rosen’s Writing on the Wall
Rosen employs a visual idiom of protest that relies more on wordplay than imagery.
Art
Refereeing Trump
Richard Kraft has classified Trump’s daily actions “in the fashion of a soccer referee,” assigning yellow and red cards to the President’s conduct.
Art
An Artist Named Artist Finds Order in Digital Waste
American Artist examines blackness and detachment with broken shards of digital culture.
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Painting the Sky on Sunday
Byron Kim's diaristic texts offer a bird’s-eye view of his life — the youth soccer games, the dinner parties, the glum and the optimistic moods, the children going away to college.
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Overcoming Daily Life with Nayland Blake’s Daily Drawings
In drawing every day for nearly three years, Blake has produced a playful diaristic record of their moods and flights of fancy.
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Ruination and Rumination on the Anthropocene
Patty Chang's ecological art struggles with its own fatalism.
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An Artist Adopts Avant-Garde Poetry to Express the Limits of Language
As a black, Muslim woman, subject to any number of externally imposed strictures, Kameelah Janan Rasheed does not adopt these avant-garde techniques for merely aesthetic purposes.
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Dale Chihuly’s Road Not Taken
Chihuly may be a nature sculptor but his shiny maximalist aesthetic is far from naturalistic.
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Rose DeSiano Holds a Mirror Up to Nature
A deceptively thoughtful sculpture series engages with Randalls and Wards Islands’ erased and less visible histories.