News
Anthony Scaramucci Plugs Musical Parodying Trump's Family Fracas
The former White House Director of Communications holds his second-ever press conference, but it's for a new Off-Broadway musical lampooning the Trump family.
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Art
A Utopia of Yugoslav Architecture at MoMA
Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980 introduces audiences to a bold modernist tradition forged by radical, multi-ethnic communities with utopic, collective ambitions.
Books
A Photographer Focuses on Transhumanism
Showcasing transformational changes in the ways we view our bodies and the possibilities for hybridizing them, Matthieu Gasfou's H+: Transhumanism(s) is both a historical document and a possible warning for the future.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Okwui Enwezor on leaving Germany, #MeToo in museums, the aesthetics of W.E.B. Du Bois, British mosques, criticizing Avital Ronell, and more.
Books
Connoisseurship Is Not a Dirty Word
Connoisseurship, it is often said, is elitist, Euro-centric, and logo-centric, to employ the fashionable jargon.
Poetry
Recollections of William Corbett
Poet, editor, and art critic William Corbett passed away on August 10th.
Books
What Is a Poet?
Deeply suspicious of anything that smacks of self-importance, of making a blanket statement or pronouncement, Clark Coolidge resists nailing down what the poet and poem are.
Art
Something Happened in DC
Or did it?
Art
Fixating on Giacometti’s Doomed Woman
Who is this nameless woman whose first (and last) breaths were drawn nearly 90 years ago?
Books
A Norwegian Tale of Love Is Translated
Originally published in Oslo in 1997 to great acclaim, Hanne Ørstavik's novella Love is a delicate, fragile tale governed by its own laws of narration.
Art
Kanishka Raja’s Life Between Two Worlds
Raja, who was 49 when he passed away on July 20, charted a singular artistic and personal trajectory between America and India.
Podcast
Is the Art World Ready for the Sanctuary Movement?
As New York cultural leaders listen to the concerns of immigrant communities, we talk about the challenges of immigrant advocacy in the art world, and then Zachary Small interviews Emma Sulkowicz about the #MeToo movement.