Art

Enrique Martínez Celaya's "The First Kierkegaard"

Kierkegaard has been a constant source of inspiration for the Cuban-born painter Enrique Martínez Celaya, one of a number of philosophers and writers whose work he has studied, absorbed, and responded to.

Art

In Carlo Zinelli and Eugen Gabritschevsky’s Art, the Life Spirit Endures

Diving into the American Folk Art Museum’s two new exhibitions, it’s quite likely that your head will spin — for all the right reasons — in the presence of some very potent expressions from two unsinkable human spirits.

Art

Field Report on an Artist and Her Pigs

In her project This Little Piggy, Elaine Tin Nyo is forcing an engagement with the wages of survival against the desire for pleasure, and our unwillingness to tease them apart.

Art

Two Artists Make a Mess in the Name of Process

Husband-and-wife artist duo Rotem Tamir and Omri Zin created a pair of elaborate contraptions to help them laboriously make balloons and ink inside the gallery.

In Brief

From Biblical Condoms to Blue Tile Contact Lenses, Putting the Rijksmuseum Collection to Unusual Uses

The Rijksmuseum's annual Rijksstudio Award invites anyone to create new work inspired by objects from its collection, and now the public can vote on the 10 finalists.

Interview

“What Does It Mean to Be Black and Look at This?” A Scholar Reflects on the Dana Schutz Controversy

Christina Sharpe says the issue at the heart of the dispute over the Emmett Till painting is not representation so much as intimacy and our relationship to violence.

Comics

The Casual Disappointment of Bjarne Melgaard

The artist's new brand and derelict department store installation are full of tired, co-opted ideas.

Art

See Film and Video Art on the Big Screen at BAM

The eighth edition of Migrating Forms, running March 24–30, includes works by General Idea, Cauleen Smith, Jonathas de Andrade, Sondra Perry, and others.

Art

The Greatest Biennial of All

The Whitney Houston Biennial is back, showing the work of 167 women artists.

Art

The Global History of African Textiles at the Fowler Museum

The exhibition African Print Fashion Now!, opening this Saturday, chronicles the history of African textiles, beginning with their 19th-century origins in West and Central Africa.

Art

Mao, Lenin, Thatcher, and Other Leaders Haunt Art Basel Hong Kong

Adjacent installations by Pio Abad and Shen Shaomin at the fair offer cautionary tales on the perils of communism and the evils of neoliberalism.

Art

A Dada Exhibition Fetishizes the Movement’s Ephemera

The exhibition is shallow, portraying the movement through familiar pieces and presentations that provided but a façade of its "simultaneity of contradictions."