In Brief
Goldfish Bashes Tiny Furniture with a Hammer
Artist Neil Mendoza has endowed a goldfish with the power to "smash people stuff," reversing the typically anthropocentric dynamics of marine power relations.
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Film
How the TV Adaptation of I Love Dick Recenters the Female Gaze
I Love Dick is a show about how women are discouraged from having ideas and what happens when one woman lets her fantasies drive her art.
News
A Glimpse Inside the Street Art–Themed 5Pointz Condos
The first renderings of the luxury development show its logo in wildstyle lettering and graffiti-inspired wall art in stairwells and lounges.
Art
Puerto Rican Painters Who Fold, Cut, and Tear the Canvas
Beyond the Canvas: Contemporary Art from Puerto Rico features an intergenerational group of five artists wrestling with the history and materiality of painting.
In Brief
Holy Crêpe! An Algorithm Created Seven Million Unique Nutella Jar Labels
Ferrero recently partnered with advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather Italia to present Nutella Unica, an algorithm that created a series of unique labels for almost every Nutella jar in Italy.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Warhol's first self-portrait goes to auction, Sam Durant speaks about "Scaffold," India's problem with architectural preservation, Zadie Smith on black pain, the six people who created "Silence = Death," and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Tape
"Which came first, the intestine or the tapeworm?"
Art
The Homages and Inventions of a Self-Taught Painter
Peter Shear is working through every form of abstraction, figuring out what paint can do.
Art
The Case for Tom Burckhardt
He resists institutional notions of what an abstract painting can be.
Art
Decoding the Trump Regime
What good can political art do?
Art
The Sexual Ambiguity of Henry Darger’s Vivian Girls
An exhibition sheds new light on the Chicago recluse’s most provocative images.
Music
Trapped by Tropes: Spoon, The New Pornographers, Alt-J, Charly Bliss
New albums by four indie-rock bands recycle and repurpose decades-old sounds, sometimes striking out and sometimes succeeding.