News
Trump-Shaped Inflatable Tank Roams the Streets of Beirut
Anonymous Syrian Artist SAINT HOAX’s Instagram performance launches in the wake of his MonuMental exhibition opening.
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Art
Required Reading
This week, a new biography of Carleton Watkins, Noam Chomsky on the State of the Empire, Mac Collins's afrofuturist chair, Brian Acton spilled the beans on Facebook, and more.
Art
The Amazing Katherine Bradford
Bradford's new paintings represent a significant departure from her previous work, which gained many admirers, myself included. Simply put: she has gotten much better at getting at difficult subjects.
Art
Ian Hamilton Finlay's Philosophical Gardening
For Finlay, the garden was not simply a place of beauty, but rather a liminal space bordered by nature and culture, where visitors are invited to meditate on the different ways time passes.
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Kyle Staver's Historical Revisions
Without resorting to parody or cynicism, Staver undoes the tropes we associate with depictions of heroic and mythical.
Art
Tiny Hands
The President’s hand size becomes a full-blown social meme obscuring the true downsizing of government.
Art
Drawing the Essay
Colter Jacobsen is an artist whose methods, thought processes, aesthetic, and values accord with many poets and their work.
Music
Four Takes on the Cover Album
Cover albums reveal something about the evolution of shared taste and cultural memory.
Art
The Importance of Being Delacroix
The last great artist who was not a modernist, Delacroix synthesized very complex visual and verbal traditions in stunning works that open the way to modernism.
Art
Healing History’s Scars in the Art of Kader Attia
Kader Attia's new solo exhibition in Barcelona reminds us of the permanence of scars as well as our ability to heal.
Art
Contemporary Takes on the French Iconic Tragedy Bonjour Tristesse
A quiet exhibition conveys a unique vision on the outsider’s place in American society.
Books
American Art Critics, from Lucy Lippard to Darby English, Open Up in a Book of Interviews
In What It Means to Write About Art, famous critics put into print parts of their story they’ve never revealed to the public before.