Art
Weekend Words: Coal
"I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs."
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Books
How Pirate and Parrot (Mis)Understand One Another
Eugene Ostashevsky is a father of two young daughters and a fan of Dr. Seuss, and he no longer thinks it is “possible to write anything serious that is not funny.”
Art
Anoka Faruqee’s Dance of Matter and Light
For an artist known for her flawless alignments (or deliberate misalignments) of overlapping wave patterns to achieve a memorable optical effect, the inclusion of “bruises” seems a bold and unexpected move.
Art
Paul Gagner Is Wise Beyond His Years
Gagner’s attention to details is laced with a sharp, self-mocking wit. And yet, there is a gentleness running through the paintings, a sense of humor at once compassionate and tough.
Art
Fall into Sin (or Become a Leader)
The question of real or fake news comes to mind especially today (unfortunately, not all of what we’re reading is an April Fools’ Day joke).
Art
The Trials of a Hot-Pink Sunbather
Ohad Meromi's public sculpture “Sunbather,” perhaps unintentionally, turns out to be a button pusher. And the pushback it has already received is a healthy sign.
Art
I Am an American: The Photographic Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration
When it comes to the mass incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans, I am, despite the redress and reparations, and the various, unfolding forms of remembrance and memorialization, entirely unconvinced that there has been any resolution, or even such a possibility.
Art
The Essential Egon Schiele
Any dissonance between the spiritual and the sexual does not seem to have occurred to Schiele: one was a manifestation of the other, for good or ill.
Satire
In Effort to Cover Deficit, Metropolitan Museum Partners with Airbnb to Rent Period Rooms
The new initiative, dubbed "The Metbnb," will allow visitors to spend the night in the museum's historic rooms for a premium.
Performance
A Play Composed of John Cage Interviews and the Sounds of Daily Life
Chess Match No. 5, a play composed from excerpts of John Cage interviews, reprises canonical questions about the nature of music and art but adds no new insights.
Art
Peruse a Pop-Up Library of Books by Black Women Authors in Bushwick
On April 2, exchange and peruse books by black women authors at OlaRonke Akinmowo's Free Black Women's Library at NURTUREart.
In Brief
Presenting “Brie-oncé,” a Cheese Sculpture of Beyoncé
A sculpture of the singer made from 45 pounds of cheddar was recently unveiled in London.