Art
Teju Cole Has Not Stopped Looking or Thinking
Combining text and photographs, Cole seeks a combination of intuition, context, and moral intelligence.
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Art
In Praise of Shadow, Color, and Light
Xuan Chen likens the viewer’s experience of her painted constructions to “exploring a newly acquired digital device,” but they have much more staying power than that.
Art
Babblegate Is the New Watergate
As a carnival of lies and contradictions streams from the Oval Office, our most reliable news sources are The Daily Show and The Late Show.
Art
John O'Reilly's Radical Photomontages
John O'Reilly's work reflects and refracts the history of art, as well as the history of looking, scanning, and reading an image.
Music
K-Pop Conquers the World
I.U., Day6, Ignito, and Lovelyz release new albums that run from exhausting to simply perfect.
Art
The Heavy Metal Symbolism of the Salon Rose+Croix
A show of Symbolist paintings at the Guggenheim makes it clear that 19th-century France had an infinitely more interesting fin-de-siècle flip-out than we did in the 20th.
Performance
Placing Your Trust in the Black Male Body
In a performance at Fergus McCaffrey gallery, Clifford Owens used his body as an instrument to propel others not to fear, but to trust.
News
Trump Drawing Sells for $29,184 at Auction. Sad!
A 2005 drawing by the reality TV star–turned–US President has fetched a very high price at auction.
News
Canada Releases World’s First Glow-in-the-Dark Coin in Circulation
The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a Northern Lights–themed luminescent coin to commemorate the country's 150th birthday.
Art
A Street Artist’s Whimsical Interventions Turn the City into a Playground
The New York-based street artist Tom Bob has a knack for bringing mundane bits of the cityscape to cartoonish life.
Art
Michel Houellebecq's Cynicism Persists in His Photographs
For his US gallery debut, Michel Houellebecq presents an exhibition which amounts to a theory attempting to explain the dysfunction of French society.
Books
A Performance Artist Explores “the Vast Possibilities of Black Female Subjectivity”
In her memoir Swallow the Fish, Gabrielle Civil examines the narratives she’s ingested since childhood and by which she found herself creatively propelled.