Opinion
Why I "Like" but Don't Love Cindy Sherman's Instagram Photos
Other critics responded rapturously after the art star made her Instagram account public, but their nearly unanimous praise is misplaced.
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Art
An Itinerant Museum Picks Apart the Language of Dehumanization
The Museum of Nonhumanity, on view at the Nordic Biennial, looks at the ways language shapes "othering."
In Brief
Walking Japanese Enema Is the Latest in Shitty Mascot Design
Does this mascot make you think about enemas? One Japanese company hopes so.
Art
A Vision of US Immigration Beyond the Melting Pot
At the Queens Museum, Ronny Quevedo uses the rules of sports as metaphors for the boundaries drawn in public space.
Comics
The Mysteries of Maurice Denis
What, exactly, is going on in his 1891 painting "Easter Mystery"?
Art
The Black American Women Who Made Their Own Art World
We Wanted a Revolution at the Brooklyn Museum tracks the shape-shifting radicalism of black women artists, authors, filmmakers, dancers, gallerists, and public figures between 1965 and 1985.
Art
Required Reading
This week, bus seat ridicule, rewatching The Apprentice, Dunkirk’s colonialism problem, the White House as West Wing, and the future of fake news.
Art
Weekend Words: Constitution
"We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution."
Books
Self-Immolator: Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s Meadow Slasher
In in his new book of poems, Joshua Marie Wilkinson cuts, nicks, and rips the pastoral to achieve terrors both startling and beautiful.
Art
Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo Mourn the Fate of Immigrants
We are intent on poisoning the earth one way or another. Misrach is determined to document that poisoning without looking away, while Galindo wants to transform the results of that venom into a salve.
Art
A Second Look at Teju Cole
Cole’s photographs are sensitive to the brutal dying that is going on everywhere. He knows that looking is not innocent, and that it will never be.
Art
Filling the Swamp
The churning morass of the Trump administration makes a 140-year-old political cartoon surprisingly germane.