Music
Mourning Aretha Franklin
The energy Franklin put into her singing suggests the existence of something to overcome, her swooping dynamics and shouts coming from a place of insecurity and hardship.
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Art
Frank Bowling, or the Odd Man Out
After starting out as a figurative artist, Frank Bowling began pouring paint in 1973; he has always been the figure who doesn’t fit.
Art
Demotic Abstraction with a Twist
By concentrating on detail, which is a central feature of Barbara Takenaga’s work, she has gone against the reductive tendencies of Minimalism that still haunt painting.
Art
Cabinet of Horrors
They called him amoral, unmoored, and unprincipled.
Art
Elaine de Kooning’s Old House Is Art’s New Home
In East Hampton, the modern artist’s former residence is emerging as an unexpected cultural hub.
Books
Put On Sunglasses and Write a Poem
Almost every line in Chelsey Minnis’s Baby, I Don’t Care could have been lifted from a hard-boiled detective flick or a tough-talking screwball comedy.
Music
Pioneers of Michigan's Noise Scene Return to Their Land
The 2018 incarnation of Universal Eyes has been a moment to look forward to, and an opportunity to look back on the noise and experimental music scene that emerged in the 2000s in Michigan and the Midwest.
Announcement
Taipei Biennial 2018 Announces Participating List
Artists from 19 countries will be participating in the 11th edition of the Taipei Biennale titled Post-Nature—A Museum as an Ecosystem.
In Brief
In an Open Letter, Artists Urge Gender Parity at Rencontres d’Arles Photography Festival
Over 300 signatories have offered their support for the call urging festival director Sam Stourdzé to increase the number of participating women photographers to 50%.
Announcement
Simon Dinnerstein Interrogates the Role of Art in Lived Human Experience
On view through January 6 in Reno, this exhibition presents the noted artist’s rarely seen "Fulbright Triptych" and several works from his expansive five-decade career.
News
Protesters at Goldsmiths University in London Demand Answers for "Who Keeps the Cube White?"
Activist organization "Goldsmiths Cleaners" obstructed the opening of the new Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art to demand improved contracts for cleaners
Opinion
The Performance Art of Congressional Protest
How do we analyze the frenetic outbursts at Wednesday's Congressional hearings through the lens of aesthetic protest.