Art
Nari Ward Spotlights the Gap Between Poverty and Privilege
Nari Ward's exhibition TILL, LIT at Lehmann Maupin gallery alludes to and signifies those key systems of social organization that we can't seem to escape: race and class.
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Announcement
School of Visual Arts Continuing Education Fall 2017 Information Sessions
The Division of Continuing Education Information Sessions give you the chance to spend an evening with some of New York City’s top creative talent.
Comics
Go Outside Your Comfortable Little Boxes
It can be daunting, but sometimes it's the only way forward.
News
After Another Artists’ Enclave in Williamsburg Is Sold, Tenants Live in Uncertainty
475 Kent's charmingly ramshackle conditions fostered a close-knit community of artists — until they were notified that the building had been sold.
Art
Entangled Objects Through the Ages, from Sorcerers’ Amulets to Voodoo Dolls
The latest show at La Maison Rouge is a collection of hexing creations that are difficult to disentangle and fully interpret.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the Calibri typeface's controversies, finding lost languages, the missing Native American bodies of the Effigy Mounds National Monument, Malcolm Gladwell hates McDonald's fries, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Dawn
"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."
Interview
Arto Lindsay Remembers Hélio Oiticica
The guitarist of the No Wave band DNA talks about the 1970s in Downtown New York and his friend Hélio Oiticica, whose retrospective is now at the Whitney Museum.
Books
Intertextual Depth in Susan Howe's Debths
These poems collage Paul Thek's art, 19th-century American literature, and a fairy tale to create a fresh understanding of the memory and soul.
Books
Will Alexander's Celebration of the Possible
Alexander’s poetry is swarming with information from a vast library — like the one lost in Alexandria — that he has absorbed into his bloodstream.
Art
The Dark Puppeteer
Vlad the Influencer has accomplished what decades of Soviet saber-rattling never could.
Books
In Venice, With That Sinking Feeling
The book Migropolis: Venice, edited by Wolfgang Scheppe, examines the migrant and tourist crises afflicting Italy’s fabled “water city.”