Interview
Alfredo Jaar on the Capacity of Culture
In a conversation we had in Cape Town, I attempted to better understand Jaar's deep belief in art's capacity to effect change amid political disorder.
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Art
A Regime Conceals Its Erasure of Indigenous Armenian Culture
A groundbreaking forensic report tracks Azerbaijan’s recent destruction of 89 medieval churches, 5,840 intricate cross-stones, and 22,000 tombstones.
Performance
In the Swiss Alps, a Biennial Celebrates the Luxurious Part of the Art World
Elevation 1049 in the Swiss Alps seeks to gather art world glitterati in the mountain town of Gstaad for a singular art festival experience.
Art
Required Reading
This week, surrealist photography, the new anti-semitism, fighting the corporatization of Burning Man, the monotony of contemporary architecture, Lagos's art scene, and more.
Books
The Poetry of Psychoanalysis
Jasmine Gibson’s training as a psychoanalyst seems to permeate the organization of her poems’ imagery.
Books
Dora Malech's Formal Feelings
Malech poems foreground the beauty and power of form in her willingness to follow its constraints uncertain of the end result.
Art
Jasper Johns’s Messengers of Aging and Mortality
In these works, we are looking at a merging of organization and dissipation, an image of our destiny.
Art
Leonor Fini’s Erotic Theater
Fini’s art disarmed male authority and dissolved gender norms, with delicate, nude men attended by sumptuously dressed, leonine females.
Music
Turning Inward with Robyn, Gazelle Twin, Rosalia, and Low
Four introspective new albums depict the outside world in microcosm.
Art
Jessica Campbell and the Ghost of Emily Carr
Campbell implies that there has been one constant in the experiences of women across generations: the sexual aggression of men.
Books
The 1980s in New York
New books by Ingrid Sischy and Gary Indiana expand our understanding of a crucial decade.
Opinion
Frieze Is Selling a Fantasy of Los Angeles
All the LA-centric promotion of Frieze has bled into the fair, and flattened everything into commodity.