Books

A Poet Yearning for Knowledge

Ron Padgett’s poems make me gnash my teeth.

Art

Mosaics of Motherboards, Keyboards, and Wire

Ethiopian artist Elias Sime makes wall sculptures from castoff computer parts that evoke the toxic dumping of these materials around the world.

Art

Queer Artists in Their Own Words: Rebekah Frank Found Community Through Blacksmith Workshops and Leather Bars

LGBTQ Pride Month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer artist and letting them speak for themselves.

Art

The Southern Gothic Moods of Allison Janae Hamilton

Hamilton’s immersive installation allows visitors to wrestle with a mysterious land, its racial realities, and its mythic past.

Music

Ragnar Kjartansson’s Panorama of Love and Death

The artist’s Death Is Elsewhere conveys an understanding that humans — relatively recent additions to a 4.5-billion-year-old planet — will come and go. The planet will remain.

Art

Marley Freeman Charts the Abstract Space of Memory

Freeman transmutes a recollection into a color-based relationship between abstract forms.

Art

The Divine Light of Josef Strau

Strau's collage-paintings merge the word and the light, while positing the shared slipperiness of language and faith.

Art

A Roundup of Web Documentaries on Debbie Harry, Climate Denial, and More

Some exciting things to stream right now include "The IMAX of the 1890s," a video essay on My Own Private Idaho, and "How Silent Films Invented the Soundtrack."

Art

Inside the Studios of Four Artists at the Eyebeam Residency Program

Here's what I learned from an intimate studio visit where these artists showed me their process, vision, and the goals fueling their work.

Film

The Mutations We May Endure When Our Global Environment Becomes Uninhabitable

Joel Potrykus's new film Relaxer is at once his smallest — following a single protagonist isolated in his apartment for the entire runtime — and his most visionary.

Art

How Mohamed Melehi Helped Forge a Colorful, Moroccan Form of Modernism

New Waves at the Mosaic Rooms illustrates how Melehi’s painted waves spread across Morocco to create a cultural scene that celebrated tradition.

Announcement

Celebrate World Pride at the New York Public Library After Hours

The Library After Hours: Pride event is happening on Friday, June 21, 2019 at 7pm.