Music
Fifty Years of Wandering in Sgt. Pepper Land
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is better than a merely great rock album — it’s a glorious exemplar of goofy fluffery.
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Art
The Legendary Betty Parsons Meets the Not-So-Legendary Betty Parsons
Her reputation as a dealer has conveniently overshadowed her identity as an artist.
Art
Robert Grosvenor Doesn’t Take Us for a Ride
Grosvenor’s radically altered vintage cars are not about fulfilling fantasies; they are boxes with openings and wheels that carry you from point A to point B.
Art
Does the West Have the Will to Survive?
It doesn’t really matter, because it can’t.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Emily Cheng
The forms in Emily Cheng’s paintings are suggestive of the most primary elements: the landscape, the body, and religious iconography.
Art
Musings on Maine and Mackerel
Now based in Norwich, Vermont, with a seasonal studio on the Blue Hill peninsula, Emlen has painted her share of Maine motifs, taking on some of the most iconic landscapes, such as Monhegan Island and the Mount Desert Island region.
Art
Ronny Quevedo's Field of Play
At the Queens Museum, the artist has applied colored pieces of vinyl tape to the atrium floor in the shapes of athletic field boundary lines.
Art
The Clothes Make the Painting
Medrie MacPhee's newest paintings are made from the shapes and contours of disassembled garments, giving “pattern painting” an entirely new meaning.
Art
An Artist Couple's Domestic Gesamtkunstwerk
The outsider artist Eugene Von Bruenchenhein and his wife, Marie, created a miniature universe in their bungalow in a Milwaukee suburb.
Art
In the Arizona Desert, Artists Rediscover Relics of a Cold War Satellite Program
Julie Anand and Damon Sauer are photographing the x-shaped calibration markers from a once top-secret spying project by the US government.
In Brief
Disturbing Stock Photos Play Out the Darkest Scenarios
A brilliant Twitter account compiles outrageous, absurd, sad, and confoundingly real stock photos.
In Brief
Shocking Study of 2,000 Objects in SF’s Mexican Museum Finds 1,917 Are Fake [UPDATED]
The chair of the museum's board of directors fears that as much as half of its 16,500-object collection could turn out to be inauthentic.