Books
Journalist Jeff Sharlet Turns His Attention to Visual Storytelling
Time and night form Sharlet’s central theme: people who inhabit the night, literally and figuratively.
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Performance
Two Plays by Downtown Legend María Irene Fornés
These plays depict a reality that seems familiar and plausible yet feels dreamlike, monumental, and mythical.
Film
The Disturbing, Enthralling, Pitiless Steve McQueen
The serious-minded artist-cum-filmmaker is enjoying a full retrospective at Tate Modern.
Art
Sculpting With Light, Drawing With Shadow
It’s hard to identify precedents for Christopher Wilmarth’s sculpture, which uses its banal modern materials purely abstractly.
Art
Searching for Humanity in the Not-Quite-Human
Throughout his career Jon Pylypchuk has confronted the most awkward and gut-wrenching parts of being human.
Art
There Is Nothing United About the United States or the Art World
Peter Williams doesn’t make things easy for the viewer, and why should he?
Art
My Meetings With Donald Judd
Judd hated the cult of the artist.
In Brief
Subodh Gupta, Accused of Sexual Harassment, Drops Suit Against “Whistlebower” Instagram Account
Gupta sued Scene and Herd, an account aiming to launch a #MeToo movement in India, for defamation last year.
Podcast
What Artists Need to Know About US Taxes
Artist and tax specialist Hannah Cole shares her knowledge to help artists of all types get the breaks they deserve.
News
Scorched Museum of Chinese in America Archives Building Will Be Rebuilt
The announcement quelled concerns by community members that the city had neglected its pledge to help recover the museum’s damaged archives.
History
Unearthing Canada’s Impressionist Legacy
Canada and Impressionism closes an art-historical gap on the Canadian artists who made the journey to France — most of whom are little known or studied — and explores what happened when they went back home.
Books
Barry Schwabsky Values the Viewer in His New Book of Essays
In The Observer Effect: On Contemporary Painting, Schwabsky’s readable and often chirpy essays philosophically examine what painting is and can become through an observer’s encounter.