Art
A Painter's Extraterrestrial Journey Through the Light of Day
In recent decades, living and working in and around Cape Cod, Paul Resika’s imagery has veered between the naturalistic and the mythical.
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Music
Fast, Fizzy, Rapturous, and Bloodcurdling: U.S. Girls, Turnstile, Amen Dunes, Sofi Tukker
Four albums aspire to subversion, but delight is disruptive by definition.
Art
Philip Guston's Echoes
One of the defining features of Guston’s last decade is a paradoxical faith in the elusiveness of truth.
News
Artists and Loft Tenants Protest New York City's Department of Buildings
On Friday afternoon, politicians and loft tenants rallied near City Hall to demand that Mayor de Blasio overhaul the city's Loft Board.
Art
Google Unveils Incredibly Detailed 3D Models of At-Risk Heritage Sites
"Open Heritage" features digitized, 3D models of over 25 locations from around the world, signaling the start of a major chapter for the field of digital archaeology.
Art
Bringing the Signs and Textures of South Central LA into the Museum
Lauren Halsey's site-specific installation transforms the typically austere space of the museum into a utopian dream made of the people, symbols, and imagery of South Central Los Angeles.
Opinion
Why I Am Resigning from X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly and the Problem with 356 Mission’s Politics
The publication’s board is scheduling an event at an establishment boycotted by a long list of grass-roots organizations in Boyle Heights.
Art
Rediscovering the Studio Photographer Who Captivated Amsterdam's Art Scene in the 1990s
Lee To Sang’s photographs, paradoxically, free his subjects from being defined by the picture, and instead capture subjects who are vastly more expansive than who they appear to be in front of the camera.
Art
Bringing Our Social Media Spaces and Selves into the Gallery
An exhibition at the University of Denver features installations that substitute digital spaces and images for embodied replicas, and vice versa.
Interview
Artist's Phallus Murals Challenge Viewers "to Think Deeper, Longer, Wider, Harder"
Two of Carolina Falkholt's murals of giant phalluses have been painted over recently, but she sees them as catalysts for important and difficult conversations.
Art
Recharting America’s Origin Story Through Quilts
Stephen Towns’s exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art honors black women and Nat Turner, meditates on labor, and makes room for nuance in debates on depictions of historical violence.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: Gillian Wearing unveiled her statue of suffragist Millicent Fawcett, the Smithsonian deployed robot docents at six of its museums, and the United Arab Emirates donated $50 million toward rebuilding Mosul.