Music
Reveling in the Beauty of Emo-Rap
Critics overstate the extent to which Uzi and other new rappers have absorbed the influence of emo, which lately seems to have become a buzzword for vulnerability and interiority.
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Art
When a Painter Enacts a Ritual
There is a ceremonial aspect to the way Alison Hall makes these works, from the sanding of the plaster to the painting of the surface, to the drawing of the dots, to whatever she does next.
Art
When Hate Consumes the Brain
The great satirists — Goya, Daumier, Guston — understood that caricature is a complicated mix of anger, humor, and empathy.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Steve Mumford and Inka Essenhigh
Essenhigh and Mumford — who live together and work in adjoining studios on the Lower East Side — are unafraid to make declarations about what motivates the other.
Art
Alison Saar Breaches the Legacy of Environmental Racism
By illustrating the impact that the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 had on Southern black communities, Saar exposes a neglected history and its resonance with environmental racism.
Art
Women Artists Working with Technology
This rigorous exhibition uses art to critique the stereotype that men and technology go hand in hand
Art
The Undiscovered Ceramic Art of Stanley Rosen
Stanley Rosen’s ceramic sculpture is like a country that many of us never knew was there until now.
Art
The Iconoclastic Kinship of Kiefer and Rodin
In the new exhibition Kiefer Rodin, Anselm Kiefer draws a straight line between himself and the grand old man of French sculpture.
Art
What a Photobook Curated By a Computer Can Teach Us
While "Computed Curation" may seem like it cuts out the human editor, it actually teaches us something else entirely.
Books
The Man Who Spent 60 Years Photographing the North American Railroad
Essential Witness features photographs from Jim Shaugnessy's 60 years documenting the evolution of the North American railroad.
Books
Aleksandra Mir Delves into the Mysteries of the Universe
Mir shares the interviews she conducted with 16 space scientists and academics, many of whom helped to inform her series of black-and-white drawings of space travel.
Art
From Bullets to a Banquet, Political Works in Clay
Emily Marchand's and Lena Wolek's clay works at NowSpace are funny and grim, dystopian yet joyous.