Comics
The Small Pleasures and Anxieties of Comic Book Fairs
Sitting at a table in a comic book convention makes you confront some of your own insecurities.
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The Complete List of School of Visual Arts Continuing Education Spring 2018 Information Sessions
The Division of Continuing Education Information Sessions give you the chance to spend an evening with some of New York City’s top creative talent.
Art
The Artist Who Preserved the Vanishing Technology of Knots
Thou Shalt Knot at the New Bedford Whaling Museum celebrates the legacy of Clifford W. Ashley, artist and author of the most influential book on knots.
Art
Walker Evans's Eye on the City
While Walker Evans may be best known for his photographs from small towns across the US during the Great Depression, an exhibition at SFMOMA shows him also as a longtime New Yorker fascinated with the particulars of urban life.
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A Cartoonist’s Darkly Magical and Autobiographical Work
Cartoonist Laura Park shares her fascination with medical oddities, lesser-known murderers, morbid Victoriana, and more.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Ron Mueck's giant skulls, white men on pedestals, the world's first biological house, destroying modernist landscapes, a dog named Masterpiece, and more.
Books
Working at the Threshold of Prose
Renee Gladman investigates the moments when writing crosses over into another mode of expression.
Art
Nina Chanel Abney Paints on the Edge of Violence
Abney locates much of her work on the recognition that abuse and violence are an integral part of the everyday consciousness of people of color.
Art
Laura Owens and the Death of the Auteur
Owens’s mid-career works feel completely sterile, mainstream, and middlebrow — with just enough insider info to flatter the viewer who knows something about Roland Barthes.
Art
From Chelsea Manning to Pussy Riot, the Day for Night Summit Discusses Realities of Art and Politics
Chelsea Manning, Laurie Anderson, Saul Williams, Nadya Tolokonnikova, and Lauren McCarthy kicked off Day for Night with a Friday Summit that explored the realities of art, tech, and politics.
Art
Nothing Is As It Was
I live in a state in the heart of the heart of the country.
Books
The Making of a Modernist in the First-Ever Biography of Alexander Calder
Jed Perl makes the case that Calder was both an avant-gardist and a populist.