Opinion

Museums Should Consider Why They’ve Become Targets of Attack and Protest

A terror plot targeting the British Museum was recently thwarted, but the reasons why it became a target in the first place go far beyond the current political climate.

Art

Required Reading

This week, Murakami and Kanye, museums confronting colonialism, André Leon Talley talks race, the Enlightenment's racism, winning a house in Detroit, Falz's This Is Nigeria, and more.

Performance

A Composer's Obsession Becomes an Underwater Wonder

Watching puppeteer Basil Twist’s Symphonie Fantastique is like experiencing an extreme episode of synesthesia.

Art

A Sculptor Cuts an Uncanny Figure

Everything in the work of sculptor Sarah Peters is an act of reimagining and melding together disparate sources into something that becomes curiouser and curiouser.

Art

Terry Winters's Inspired Rejections

Winters’s painting technique argues against gestural abstraction’s sweeping structures and minimalism’s solid-color surfaces.

Art

Why I Draw Faces

For a while as a child I had a best friend. We did stupid and dangerous things together.

Art

John Moore's Fabricated Realities

"In paintings that resonate with post-industrial America, Moore rearranges the world."

Art

Living without Wifi (with Recipe)

I’ve been using my car as my studio.

Interview

Beer with a Painter: Joyce Pensato

Pensato’s work is about grand gestures and not backing down.

Art

An Installation Like an Enchanted Forest

While galleries often promise "an immersive, multimedia exhibition," this exhibition is constructed with a sense of wonder, curiosity that works.

Performance

At the Brooklyn Museum, Actors Play at Faking Democracy

The actor’s trade is always a deception, creating the appearance of authenticity.

Art

You Can Finally Listen to the Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum

Now, for the first time, visitors are able to hear the sounds of the historical instruments on display in The Art of Music.