Art
An Alphabet Made of New York City Trees
Artist Katie Holten created the New York City Tree Alphabet, and soon will lead the planting of messages with the living typeface.
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Required Reading
This week, the first Metropolitan Museum, Frank Stella's lost Black painting, Eli Valley's amazing comics, “the most LA thing ever,” racist yearbooks, and more.
Music
The Odd Comforts of Alternative Rock
Traditionalism often enables quiet triumphs. Or loud triumphs, if you turn the volume up.
Books
Reflections of America in a British's Author's Wall
The nightmares in John Lanchester's The Wall seem like a logical endpoint of the West's recent relapse into chauvinistic nationalism.
Art
In Judith Linhares’s Sinless World
Linhares has become a pioneer who paved the way for a generation of women artists to develop their own alternative worlds.
Art
Discovering the Women of Art Brut
In Vienna, a new exhibition showcases the ideas and accomplishments of self-taught female artists.
Art
Entering Art's Unknown
A sense of mystery pervades Enrico David’s art, in which a rich language of symbols suggests paths of possible interpretation.
Art
Virginia Lee Montgomery's Abject Whimsy
Virginia Lee Montgomery toys with the psychic space in which abjection is gendered, playfully prodding erotic hierarchies.
Art
Strong Women and Male Privilege at the Felix Art Fair
Kaari Upson's work resonated with the excesses and liberties that characterize the relationship in Hollywood between powerful men and less powerful women.
Art
Seeking Beauty as the World Falls Apart
David Opdyke appears to understand why they say the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Comics
From China's Underground Comics Scene: “Watermelon Man”
When the sun sets, things get interesting.
Opinion
The Latest Sign of the Apocalypse Is Glittery Dog Testicles
Introducing the latest dog grooming trend and harbinger of nothing good.