Announcement
Rhode Island School of Design’s 2017 Graduate Thesis Exhibition
Graduate student work across 16 disciplines to be featured in showcase of hundreds of RISD artists and designers.
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Art
From Daily Life to Scientific Explorations, Photos of Latin America Between 1860 and Today
Viewpoints, an exhibition at the New York Public Library, features an impressive array of photographs made in Latin America by local photographers as well as foreigners.
Art
Confronting Our Existential Dilemmas in a Live-Simulated Fantasy World
For Emissaries, Ian Cheng designed three self-playing video games that take place on a fictitious volcanic island.
Comics
The Commencement Speech I Wanted to Hear
Words can inspire in many different ways.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the world's largest watercolor painting, the bedcover Rauschenberg stole, the language of autocrats, Crapumenta, Apple's new HQ, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Delay
"We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket."
Music
The Intentional Fallacy Is Evil: Festival Anthems, Fifty Shades Darker, Workout Motivation, 35 Hits from the ‘70s & ‘80s
With any number of noncanonical, shelf-filling compilations released on the market every day, the failure to review them makes sense, as they're rarely any good — but rarely doesn’t mean never.
Books
Crosscutting Tales: Donald Breckenridge's Novel And Then
Satisfying both on the level of story and style, And Then is a thoughtful meditation on the residue that remains: the ghosts that people our lives, the dead we cannot forget.
Art
Sylvia Plimack Mangold’s Spring and All
I cannot think of another artist devoted to nature who chooses such unlikely, decidedly plain, almost unsightly views, but never makes that act the point of the painting.
Art
Don Voisine Makes Geometry Sexy
Every color in a Voisine painting has its own material identity. Even the narrow bands edging or running through the panel’s border colors convey a distinctive feel to their physicality.
Art
Before the Bath
All the time that we spent going about our business, slowly but surely a Trump presidency became inevitable.
Art
Inquiry Meets Imagination in Jen Durbin's "Jackie Series"
In a series of drawings derived from frames of the Zapruder film, Durbin tracks the shifting spatial orientation of Jackie Kennedy's pink pillbox hat — and by implication, Mrs. Kennedy's bodily response to the unfolding horror.