Art
The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2016 Edition
Some people care about money, fame, and power; we prefer to look elsewhere.
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Art
Teetering in a Dark Room
As much as we might feel that our lives are lived these days at breakneck speed, Bruce Nauman’s work suggests otherwise. “Films,” for Nauman, “are about seeing.”
Music
Frank Ocean Four Years Later
Blonde is a consistent, coherent, well-crafted album, but it feels anticlimactic. It’s a retreat.
Art
The Pursuit of Art, 2016
The first painting I saw in 2016 was “Cockman Always Rises Orange” (2015): we can’t say we weren’t warned.
Art
15 Artists, Shows, and Works Censored in 2016
Here's a look at some of this year’s acts of art censorship.
Art
Best of 2016: Our Top 15 Exhibitions Around the World
Our picks for the best art shows in the world this year.
Comics
Use Your Heat to Make Light
Done with that.
Art
Tracking the 19th-Century Explorer Who Scaled Java's Volcanoes
An exhibition at the Canadian Center for Architecture uses the example of Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, who between 1836 and 1848 climbed more than 40 of Java's volcanoes, to question man's relationship to the landscape.
Art
Seeking Solutions to My First-World Problems at Standing Rock
Feeling defeated by 2016, I went to Standing Rock seeking a post-Trump formula for resistance. What I found was far messier than what I expected, but no less practical.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: Yoshitomo Nara was sued by a cosmetics company he claims copied his work, a Henry Moore sculpture was installed at Columbia University despite students deeming it a "monstrosity," and India began construction on the world's tallest statue.
Books
Jet-Age Dreams in the Vintage Posters of Pan Am Airlines
Pan Am: History, Design & Identity, a new book by Matthias C. Hühne, retraces the distinct design history of the defunct Pan Am airlines.
Art
An Iranian-American Artist's Unfinished Abstractions
“Caress my darkness, liminal lover” is the title of three paintings by Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi. Each depicts a brimstone hellscape speckled with cypress trees, plumages of seafoam-colored cabbage, and a single imperial gateway arch. The three paintings almost link up to form a triptych, but they fall just short of