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Art
Revisiting Elizabeth Catlett’s Legacy in 12 Powerful Sculptures
An exhibition at Burning in Water remembers Catlett's long and remarkable career in sculpting the female form.
Comics
A Portrait of the Artist at Her Day Job
Some days, work can be stimulating and invigorating. On others, not so much.
Art
Signs of Creative Resistance at the 2018 Women’s March
Over a million people around the world protested the one-year anniversary of the Trump administration, and many showed up with great signs, the greatest in fact, these are definitely some very very great signs.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a gigantic Katharina Grosse in Sydney, Anuradha Vikram on radical of women, Trevor Paglen on the changing nature of contemporary images, talking to Haitian art collective Ti Moun Rezistans, and more.
Books
A Modern Poet's Timeless Word Bank
Maureen McLane starts off her collection with a gaze that projects itself from the ground to the depths of the galaxy.
Art
An Artist’s Devotion to Exactness
The sensual surfaces of Susan York’s graphite sculptures bring together sight and touch without favoring either.
Art
Catherine Murphy Sets the Bar Higher and Higher
Murphy shows viewers things they know — a cherry pie or a pile of broken dishes — in ways that are arresting, straightforward, and extremely unsettling.
Art
Feeding King Narcissus
Sucking at the shithole, an unquenchable leach.
Art
Taking the Painter Out of Painting
For Christian Bonnefoi, it is when the painter disappears as the author of a painting that the artwork emerges.
Music
Shimmer and Melancholy in SZA's 'Ctrl'
The songs on Ctrl occupy a space where insecurities over sex, romance, and gender are credibly illuminated, coexisting as they do with music committed to functionalism and the pleasure principle.
Art
The Visible Language of Outsider Art
Vestiges & Verse: Notes from the Newfangled Epic, an exhibition of illustrated texts by self-taught artists, feels so intimate that it seems to enter the creative process itself.