Film

The Spectacular Power of Movies with Epic Runtimes

Two movies in this year's China Onscreen Biennial stand out, not just for their subject matter or prestige, but for their sheer breadth.

Art

Required Reading

This week, the Village Voice and photography, fiscal responsibility as an artist, dating Mt. Vesuvius, white critics and black art, and more.

Music

The Latin Invasion in Pop

Thanks to the growing popularity of Latin trap music, Latin pop is having a heyday in the United States.

Art

Jim Dine Breaks Out

Although Dine is considered a blue-chip artist (a rather ugly term, if you ask me), the New York art world has not been kind to him.

Art

Cyclops, Bananas, and the Art World’s Race Problem

How do persons of color get into the history of painting after it has excluded them?

Art

Relearning to Draw with Strips of Colored Tape

You could say that Sangram Majumdar is learning a way of drawing in which mastery is beside the point.

Art

No Room for Satire

King Testicle and Prince Kushy make a deal for the future of humanity.

Music

Yoko Ono Sings As If Our Lives Depended on It

With Warzone, the artist revisits some of her older anthems, whose themes are more timely than ever.

Art

Vanished Art Recalled and Reinterpreted

In this exhibition contemporary artworks are paired with works that have been destroyed or lost to the annals of art history.

Art

The Extraordinary Marcia Hafif

For Hafif, painting was a meditative act, a clarifying ritual.

Community

A View from the Easel

This week, artist studios in Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania.

In Brief

Man Smashes Glass Protecting 800-Year-Old Magna Carta, Cathedral Evacuated

The charter is one of four Magna Cartas existence, and has been temporarily removed from public display after its vitrine was shattered by a hammer.