News

A Call to Save a Floating Performance Space by Louis Kahn [UPDATED]

A 50-year-old floating performance space designed by architect Louis Kahn may be sent to a Louisiana shipyard for scrap at the end of this year's tour.

Art

The Tender Gravity of Domestic Spaces Haunted by AIDS

A multimedia exhibit at Museum of the City of New York looks back at the domesticity of the AIDS crisis.

Comics

How to Deal with Rejection Letters

Sometimes you have to face rejection straight on and work through it.

Books

Unruly Poems that Illuminate White Supremacy in Everyday Life

Poet Nikki Wallschlaeger's new book Crawlspace discovers the violence embedded in our most familiar structures: mortgages, meals, rooms, houses, family relationships, and language itself.

Art

Required Reading

This week, the Venice Biennale's photo problem, the importance of Jimmie Durham's claim to Cherokee heritage, the politics of fire, the state of queerness, dissecting Munch's "The Scream," and more.

Art

Weekend Words: Idiot

"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them."

Art

Translating Sight into Paint

Working entirely from observation, Daniel Heidkamp’s paintings join what we see with what we feel.

Art

A Painter’s Dreams Go Up in Smoke

Brandi Twilley's paintings of her childhood bedroom before it was destroyed by a fire are devoid of sentimentality, nostalgia, and even sympathy.

Art

Philippe Vandenberg’s Urgent Testimony

At some point in his career, Vandenberg became disgusted with the attention he was getting, and walked away from the work that made him a success.

Art

What Will Our Grandchildren Say About Trump?

A reflection on Trump, America's angry zit.

Art

Walter Benjamin on How to Stop Worrying and Love Late Capitalism

Benjamin’s gargantuan Arcades Project brims with philosophical propositions, poetic digressions, lyrical aphorisms, and experimental theses.

Music

Yoko Ono’s Music of the ’70s is Back

Three new re-releases showcase Ono’s technical innovations and vocal range, from screams, yelps, wails, grunts, and guttural bursts to ballads, Latin beats, and the blues.