Art
Potent Photos of New York City Protests in the 1980s and '90s
Whose Streets? Our Streets! New York City: 1980–2000, now on view at the Bronx Documentary Center, collects 20 years of protest photography in New York City.
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Art
On a Foggy Film Set, Karl Marx Sings "The Internationale"
The latest iteration of artist and curator Willy Kautz's Jippies Asquerosos ("dirty hippies") project takes up themes of religion, capitalism, and communism with lightness and theatricality.
Books
When "Queer" Art Becomes Commonplace
In The Estrangement Principle, author Ariel Goldberg warns against the dangers of overusing the word “queer."
Comics
How Much Does Your Art Cost?
It seems like a simple question, but it unleashes a lot.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Lady Liberty gets a "Refugees Welcome" banner, critics hate on Amy Feldman and Jason Rhoades, Warhol's cause of death may be more complicated than we think, drawing black comic characters, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Sign
"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
Books
Reader’s Diary: A Philosopher’s Fictions
It’s kind of wonderful when pure chance leads you to a book that unexpectedly illuminates another one you’ve just read.
Art
Elliott Green Can See for Miles and Miles and Miles
Elliott Green has channeled the landscape paintings of the early Northern Song dynasty along with the fantastical landscapes of the Sienese painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
Art
Robert Mangold’s Sense of Things
For Mangold, more than any other artist of his generation, painting is contingent, rather than self-sufficient. It is part of an active relationship.
Art
To Haunt Us Out of Now
If this kind of wacko fear-mongering is part of the new American norm, I think the best thing art can do is spook us out of this existence.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Craig Stockwell
Painters who lived and exhibited in New England, like Jake Berthot and Porforio DiDonna, are highly represented. They, like Stockwell, have straddled the line between tough material abstraction, nature, and the figure.
Music
Solemnly Dinky High-Camp Bleepy: Chiptune Radio’s ‘Undertale’
Gliding and burbling, ringing and spattering and glitching, a lyrical escapism animates an album whose loveliness and silliness are inextricable.