Music
An Electropop Take on Romantic Rapture
The grand arc of Sophie’s bewilderingly titled Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides swings through a billion little moments of rapture, with sounds beautiful, ugly, extreme.
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Art
The Ghosts of Our Future Climate at Storm King
A group exhibition featuring almost 20 artists suggests directions for visual art in response to climate change.
Art
What Would Grandma Do?
I’m glad Grandma never had to hear the President say almost every offensive word, at least once, on national TV.
Art
A Pioneering Thai Artist in America
Tang Chang's first solo US retrospective veers away from the criteria of progress and linearity according to which Western art is typically evaluated.
Art
A Pilgrimage to Art Brut’s Austrian Heart
An Austrian museum presents a wide-ranging survey of works made over almost 50 years by residents and other autodidacts associated with the Art Brut Center Gugging, near Vienna.
Art
Texas Museum Deliberates How to Display a Mural About Hate Crimes Against Latinos
The Blanton Museum of Art in Austin took unprecedented measures to exhibit the controversial paintings of a modern-day Ku Klux Klan meeting.
Art
Artists Stage a Contemporary Art “Black Market” in Tokyo
The event was organized to address an existential question that haunts Japanese artists: Is art possible when there’s only a limited domestic market to support it?
Podcast
How Contemporary Female Artists Are Grappling with Sexual Violence in Their Work
Curator Monika Fabijanska talks about her exhibition The Un-Heroic Act, and arts journalist Barbara Pollack chats about her new book on an emerging generation of Chinese contemporary artists.
Art
Artists Are Addressing the Tide of Gentrification in LA’s Little Tokyo
The Little Tokyo Service Center is piloting an artist residency designed to help local residents and small businesses address the gentrification affecting Little Tokyo and other parts of Los Angeles.
Announcement
eBay for Charity and Brazilian Artist Ernesto Neto Partner to Support Fondation Beyeler's Public Art Project
Proceeds benefit American Friends of Fondation Beyeler, which promotes and supports public understanding and appreciation of art and art education.
Interview
“Our Main Motivation Has Always Been to Troll Donald Trump,” Says Trump Baby Balloon Designer
We spoke with designer Matt Bonner who "birthed" Trump Baby about his grand political aspirations for his newborn, gassy blimp.
Interview
Reanimating Women from Found Photographs
From images of funerals to portraits of women who underwent forced sterilization, Daisy Patton's works allow "the person to come back from death for a moment."