Art
Guggenheim Ventures into the Future with Its Own Cryptocurrency
The Guggenheim’s latest online exhibition is an indulgent science fiction that brings the future to the present.
Zachary Small
Zachary Small was a writer at Hyperallergic.
Art
The Wooster Group Revisits Norman Mailer’s Attack on Feminism
Disturbed, disruptive, and displayed across projectors and television screens, Norman Mailer infects the Performing Garage’s stage with his patented brand of misogynistic bravado.
Art
Exposing the Editor’s Hand in 20th-Century News Photos
Photography has never gazed so deeply into its own navel as with Thomas Ruff.
Art
The Natural Geometries of Ellsworth Kelly’s Photographs
Any exhibition of Ellsworth Kelly’s art is a bittersweet event following the artist’s recent death, a postmortem reflection on a masterful legacy.
Art
Art that Slows Down How We Assess Gender
At the center of Smack Mellon’s Dumbo gallery, Gil Yefman’s knitted wrecking ball of genitalia and bodily fluids hangs from the ceiling.
Performance
Singing the Struggles of Trans People in the American South
On the surface, the new musical Southern Comfort has all the trappings of a conventional family drama.
Art
A Game Where You Host Corporate-Sponsored Pride Parades
Nothing smacks of pinkwashing more than a corporate-sponsored pride parade.
Art
A Photo Exhibition Reduces Queer Desire to Clichés
Try not to roll your eyes: the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art has created an exhibition about the erotic.
Performance
Injecting Conversations on Gender, Race, and Gay Rights into Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’
If the function of architecture is to create contemplative spaces, then the theater has become a place for ghosts.
Performance
A Festival Offers Experimental Theater that Audiences Can Relate To
Bertolt Brecht is rolling in his grave right now — but only to better see the provocative theater happening at The Public.
Interview
"All Artists Are Theater Artists": Taylor Mac on the Connections Between Performance Art and Plays
Queerness revolts in the Podunk setting of Taylor Mac’s newest play, Hir, currently running at Playwrights Horizons.
Art
Designers Reinterpret the Confused Legacy of Le Corbusier for the Tech Age
The Swiss Institute’s second annual architecture and design exhibition attempts to recapture the revelatory voice of Le Corbusier for the technological age. The results are more cumbersome than visionary.