Art
Seeing Spectral Visions in Fulsome Skirts
The artist Todd Murphy uses skirts as a means of projection, making them gateways to mythical realms.
Seph Rodney
In Brief
Critics Say Proposed Helsinki Guggenheim May Cost Taxpayers Over 100 million Euros
Critics say the proposed Guggenheim Helsinki project would cost Finnish citizens over 100 million Euros, but the museum foundation disputes those figures.
Art
Trenton Doyle Hancock’s Packed, Percussive Paintings
The artist's solo show at James Cohan is a raucous, slightly creepy, rebellious screed.
Performance
A Play Touches on the Power of Touch
The beating heart of My Brother’s a Keeper, performed at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, is an interlude at a bus stop when two characters let go of verbal language.
Performance
A Dancer Finds Freedom in a Forest of Wires
It doesn’t feel right to call Plexus either a dance or a spectacle.
Art
Walls that Border on the Absurd
In the hands of artist C.J. Chueca, walls become objects for philosophical inquiry.
Art
Considering the Digital and Networked Future of Museums
The Museum Computer Network conference in New Orleans focused on "The Human-Centered Museum" and tackled some ambitious questions.
Art
Quilting a Patchwork of Latin American and Caribbean Identity
There is nothing about Sylvia Hernandez's colorful quilts that is posturing, nor is the work ingratiating, playing up hackneyed tokens of Hispanic heritage.
Art
Black Identity Seen Through the Lens of Pulp Stories
In Black Pulp! at the International Print Center New York, artists and co-curators William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson connect the literary genre of pulp with one of its most powerful vehicles: the story of blackness in the United States.
Art
Photographs of Poverty Measure Broken Systems and Lives
Eugene Richards's Below the Line: Living Poor in America isn't about sympathy but something more.
Art
A Caribbean Cultural Center Finds a Permanent Home in Harlem
The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute just reopened in a landmark building that was once a firehouse at 120 East 125th Street, right in between the atria and ventricles at the heart of East Harlem.
Performance
Carrie Mae Weems Updates Antigone’s Story of Defiance
Carrie Mae Weems has brought the play's undying themes to new life with her work Past Tense, which combines song, text, reading, and projected video.