Art
Chicago’s Plan for Sick Trees: Turn Them into Art
Artists turn trees devastated by a pest into works of public art, calling attention to the problem and creating opportunities for unexpected artistic encounters across the city.
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Required Reading
This week, an underground restaurant, political lives of medieval manuscripts, the need to claim (physical) QTBIPoC spaces, Harold Pinter's catty side, and more.
Music
Case Studies in Musical Hooks: Father John Misty, Galantis, Ed Sheeran, Ashik Reza
Craft in itself means nothing unless it reaches total flawlessness.
Art
Three Postwar American Painters Who Were Too European for New York
Long before globalism became a buzzword, Norman Bluhm, San Francis, and Paul Jenkins joined the artists and intellectuals from around the world in postwar Paris.
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A Cerebral Portraitist‘s Unaccountable Neglect
In 1960, the art world was not ready to accept Marcia Marcus’s conceptual approach to portraiture.
News
Protesters Return to James Cohan Gallery to Say Goodbye to "Omer Fast’s Racist Show"
Activists from as far away as Los Angeles and Vancouver came to Manhattan's Chinatown to address the role of art galleries in gentrification.
Art
The Next Siren Wail
How do we get home from here?
Books
An Artist Who Fantasized as a Way to Survive
A self-taught draftsman and fantastical storyteller, Renaldo Kuhler’s life and fashion sense were as eccentric as his art.
Art
Dale Chihuly’s Road Not Taken
Chihuly may be a nature sculptor but his shiny maximalist aesthetic is far from naturalistic.
Art
A Painter’s Theater of Destitution
The fifteen realist paintings in Linden Frederick: Night Stories take us on a tour of small-town Maine.
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The Politics of Adversity in Pope.L’s Flint Water Project
Flint Water Project politicizes the readymade, positing the bottles as symbols of gross negligence and misconduct on the part of city and state officials, and the dire consequences.
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Throughout New York’s Chinatown, Telling Immigrant Stories Through Dance
In Mei-Yin Ng’s "Sit, Eat, Chew," performers take you on a tour through Chinatown's apartments, restaurants, museums, and parks, while sharing personal immigrant stories.