Art
This week, the first-ever photographs of the dark side of the moon taken from the surface of the natural satellite, athletes and their tattoos are becoming a problem for video games, eating in the Stone Age, Trump as an evangelical Cyrus the Great, and more.
Books
Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s Third-Millennium Heart is a beautiful monster of a book coming at you straight, with no padding of preface or foreword to warn you what you might be in for.
Books
John Koethe can be mordant, bleak, anguished, humorous, tender, and even sweet.
Art
Dishonest people, these artists, and very unfair.
Art
The problem with Robert Cenedella’s analysis is that it isn’t radical enough.
Art
Belott’s “frozen artworks” signify duration in the interval between the water freezing and the ice melting.
Art
The disavowal of blighted Brutalist structures is a rejection of the unconditional love of imperfection.
News
Amanda Schmitt, a former Artforum employee, accused Landesman of sexual misconduct occurring during and after her career at the magazine. Her claims were backed by eight other women.
Books
For seven years, Andrew Moisey documented the debauchery of university fraternities. His photographs evince an unsettling ritual of malevolent machismo.
In Brief
The Getty Research Institute has digitized a collection of Ottoman-era photographs available to study and download for free.
Books
The anthology arrives at a crucial time to speak about the art scenes of European post-communist societies and their common conditions of transformation.
Community
This week, artist studios in California, New York, Ohio, and Texas.