Books
101 Unflinching Portraits of Survivors of US Gun Violence
Kathy Shorr's photography book helps to de-normalize what has become painfully normal
Oriana Leckert
Art
Healers, Mixologists, Tattoo Artists, and More Fill a Vacant Queens Building for a Night
On March 25, an empty apartment building in Queens was filled with dazzling art installations and participatory performances.
Art
The Kinetic Possibilities of Salvaged Furniture
Dre Britton breaks down quotidian structures and rebuilds them, yielding constructions that are both vaguely familiar and vaguely alien.
Art
Proposing Painting as a Form of Refusal
Blake Rayne’s first midcareer survey is full of linguistic disruptions and quiet repetitions, bringing to mind Bartleby the scrivener’s disarming resistance.
Art
Saying Goodbye to a Brooklyn DIY Architectural Marvel
Most of the coverage you’ll find about the Broken Angel House, a handmade architectural marvel in Clinton Hill, starts the story in 2006, when there was a small fire that set off all the trouble. That’s the year the tale switches from one about brilliant bohemian artists building their crazy dream h