Art
How Art Making Is Like World Building
This group show acknowledges the art-making process as one of world building, in the sense that artists are continuously generating sets of rules to govern their work.
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Drawing the Fragile Vulnerability of Transitioning Bodies
Roey Heifetz’s layers of lacquer, powder, and pigment, and lines upon lines of intensive, unsettling drawing, lacerate the gallery with pain, obsession, and passion.
Art
Inside the Gypsum-Window Workshop at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque
A day with the team working to preserve a particularly Islamic tradition of stained-glass-window making, using techniques that date back hundreds of years.
Performance
A Disco-Pop Take on ‘Medea' Unfolds Across Multiple Stages and Screens
Yara Travieso’s staging of La Medea at the Coil festival was several shows at once — the performers themselves, live video, and other audience members, who were at times invited to join in the dance.
Comics
Aren't We All Seeking Praise and Validation?
That feeling when you have something to tell people but you're embarrassed to do so.
Announcement
The Birmingham Museum of Art Explores Connections Between the American South and Global South
Third Space brings together work by more than 90 international artists, including Kerry James Marshall, Ebony Patterson, Mark Bradford, José Bedia, and Katrín Sigurdardóttir.
Art
Trump's Signature Is the "Sound Wave of Demons Screaming"
The new US president's jagged, cramped, angular signature evokes lie detector graphs, the Black Gate of Mordor, and other ominous imagery.
Art
Fights to Withhold Paintings from Capitol Hill Show Their Political Power
Recent disputes over a painting by an 18-year-old and another from the 19th century illustrate art's ability to speak truth to power, but also to become a pawn in politicians' power games.
Art
Required Reading
This week, new hi-res satellite photos, the face of the resistance, the story of the Churchill bust, Soviet artists in 1960 imagine the world in 2017, freelancers asked to work for free, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Resist
"Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."
Books
Reader’s Diary: The Porn of Poetry
Dodie Bellamy’s Cunt Norton isn’t exactly pornography, but it’s a step in the right direction.
Music
Critical Distance: Car Seat Headrest, Solange, Danny Brown, Christine and the Queens
As most adolescents across the nation sit in their bedrooms and agonize over the eternal question, what do boys/girls like, some of us have more unfortunate and inconsequential concerns: what do critics like?