News

After Dispute with Documenta Artist, City of Kassel Demands Removal of Monument for Refugees [UPDATED]

The City of Kassel has decided to indefinitely remove Olu Oguibe’s public sculpture, “Monument to Strangers and Refugees,” commissioned for last year’s Documenta.

Announcement

Japanese Artists Respond to Modernity in Two Smithsonian Freer|Sackler Exhibitions

Japan Modern: Photography from the Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck Collection and Japan Modern: Prints in the Age of Photography are on view at the Freer|Sackler through January 21.

In Brief

Times Newer Roman Helps You Fudge Your Page Count for School Assignments

Now lazy college students can meet their page counts a lot more easily.

Art

An Opera on the Highline Revolves Around What Transpires at 7 O’Clock

This week on the High Line, 1,000 singers will come together to tell the diverse and personal stories of New Yorkers.

Art

Kenny Scharf Switches Between Styles, Like Changing the Channel on a TV

"It’s like watching a show and switching the channel. You can go from cartoons, to soap operas, to the news, to science fictions."

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.

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.

Art

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.