Guide
Your Concise Guide to Los Angeles Frieze Week 2019
This week, Frieze makes its much-anticipated Los Angeles debut and will be joined by a selection of other fairs, ranging from the informal and local to the international and celebrity-laden.
Latest
Interview
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders on His Toni Morrison Doc and What Bette Davis Taught Him About Photography
The first full-length documentary on the Nobel Prize-winning author offers a rich take by one of the only people she trusts to take her photograph.
Art
Why a Polish Billionaire Built a Museum in the Swiss Alps
Polish investor, art collector, and philanthropist Grażyna Kulczyk says the goal of Museum Susch is to platform “new voices and positions that are often left outside the canon of male-dominated art history.”
Art
A Show on Minimalism Lacks Its Self-Assured Presence
Strangely, of the three works visitors are most likely to bump into first after entering the National Gallery Singapore to view its show on Minimalism, none of them feel explicitly Minimalist.
Art
The Clandestine Cultural Knowledge of Ancient Graffiti
Today we are used to thinking of graffiti as subversive or illegal, but ancient people didn’t necessarily see graffiti in this way at all.
In Brief
Laurie Anderson Wins Her First Grammy
Anderson took home the award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for Landfall, her collaboration with Kronos Quartet inspired by Hurricane Sandy.
Books
Nerd Out with This Encyclopedia of Architects’ Scale Figures
The encyclopedia, which considers architecture's relationship to people, includes some 1,000 images of figures produced by more than 250 architects.
Art
The Land Art at Desert X Confronts Borders and Politics on Indigenous Territory
The second edition of Desert X is a manifesto for poetical activism, tangled between nature and urban development.
Art
See Films About Love in Time for Valentine's Day
BAM hosts a new film series, the first segment of which begins this week, with the theme of love.
Books
Marina Warner Lays the Groundwork for Dynamic Art Writing
A new anthology of erudite essays shines a light on how to address the artist's biography.
Announcement
A Three-Part Exhibition Explores Race, History, and Time at ICA Philadelphia Throughout 2019
Curated by Meg Onli, Colored People Time: Mundane Futures will be on view through March 31, 2019.
Books
A Look at the Auteur of Animation, Hayao Miyazaki
Susan Napier's Miyazaki World eloquently defines Hayao Miyazaki as an auteur who creates immersive animated realms.