Art

The Big Leader's Morning Message

Citizens plug cords into their forearms, lie back, and await the word of the day.

Music

Arcade Fire Gives Up on Life

Didn’t U2 already make these albums in the ‘90s?

Art

Tom Pnini’s Cinematic Études

Pnini’s films harken back to early cinema, as he compresses into five minutes what Andy Warhol dragged out for five hours.

Art

A Maine Painter's Private Realm of Becoming

John Walker has led a resurgence of abstract painters who look to nature, emotion, and, especially, place.

Art

Exploring Turkey's Political Crises Through Symbols of Byzantine Supremacy

Viron Erol Vert’s exhibition at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien questions political, historical, and cultural paradigms and the role of power in them.

Art

An App that Lets Blind People Experience the Solar Eclipse

A new, free mobile app allows the blind and visually impaired to witness the eclipse through sound and touch.

News

Queens Museum Cancels, Then Reinstates Israel-Sponsored Event After Accusations of Antisemitism

Fallout from the cancellation and reinstating of the event, organized by Israel's ambassador to the UN, raises concerns about how museums might do business in light of recent anti-BDS legislation.

News

Senator Cory Booker Will Introduce Bill to Remove Confederate Statues from US Capitol

A major focus of the legislation will be to remove sculptures of Confederate figures from National Statuary Hall.

Art

Seeking Escape in Paintings of a Childhood Home

In her exhibition at Sargent's Daughters, Brandi Twilley depicts windows as portals beyond the bleak circumstances of her family's house.

News

Members of President’s Arts Committee Resign en Masse in Protest of Trump [UPDATED]

All 17 private members of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities published a letter condemning Trump's "hateful rhetoric" after Charlottesville.

Books

The 19th-Century French Novelists Who Wove Painting into Their Fiction

In The Pen and the Brush, Anka Muhlstein mines the special relationship between writers and painters in 19th-century France.

Art

Reexamining a Pair of Colonial Portraits Reveals One of Boston's Most Prolific Slave Traders

The Peabody Essex Museum has owned the paintings of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Fitch since 1878, but only recently looked into their subjects' part in the transatlantic slave trade.