Announcement
The Halsey Institute Debuts The Carrion Cheer, an Installation About Humans' Relationship to Nature
The galleries become a transdimensional stopover camp for extinct animals.
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Art
Intellectual Rigor and Emotional Intensity in NYU’s MFA Thesis Show
In their two-part thesis show, NYU's studio art MFA students showcase works that are formally precise and affecting.
Books
A Harrowing Memoir Illustrates Modern-Day Slavery on Sea and Land
A testimony of human rights abuses occurring in Southeast Asia is charted in The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: A Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery.
Comics
Everything Is an Opportunity to Improve Your Art
A tiny spring visitor ends up assisting in an unlikely way.
Art
Abstracting Maps to Question Our Relationships to Territory
In her large-scale drawings on sheets of vellum, the late artist Wopo Holup rendered geographic features with little or no contextual information, forcing viewers to reimagine how they envision landscapes.
Books
A Cartoonist's Playful and Pragmatic Mental Health Guide
In the follow-up to her 2012 graphic memoir about bipolar disorder, Marbles, Ellen Forney offers practical strategies for achieving mental stability.
Interview
“Music Has Always Been with Me”: Wolfgang Tillmans on His Latest Single and Musical Career
In 1985, two years before he bought his first camera, Tillmans started experimenting with music, which he probably would’ve pursued if it weren’t for fate.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the man that helped launch black modernism in the US, considering Nobuyoshi Araki, crowdfunding as a political weapon, a reading list for mental health month, the Laurel/Yanny divide, and more.
Books
A Poet's Minecraft Romanticism
References to shadows, ghosts, and other “gothic” images in Nadia de Vries's debut poetry collection can be read as representing relationships experienced online.
Music
The All-Encompassing Cardi B
Invasion of Privacy sounds like another conventional rap album, before revealing Cardi B’s maniacal determination to be all things to everybody.
Art
Nadia Haji Omar's Multicultural Cartography
Omar brings together possibilities of allusion that the mainstream art establishment has yet to truly recognize.
Art
Armed with Hindsight
So one question I have not heard you answer is, do you believe that the previous interrogation techniques were immoral?