Music
The Thinly Veiled Queerness of George Michael's Love Songs
His songs still stand as some of the most evocative descriptions of queer desire to achieve broad commercial success.
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Books
A Graphic Novel Reimagines 'Romeo and Juliet' in 1980s Brooklyn
Combining a deep examination of Shakespeare’s play with memories of Wimberly’s own teen years, Prince of Cats is electric.
Art
Best of 2016: Our Top 15 Exhibitions Across the United States
Here's a small taste of what this vast country had to offer in art this year.
Books
The Persistence of Hunger: Dalí's Dissatisfying Cookbook
Salvador Dalí's 1973 cookbook, now reprinted by Taschen, doesn’t seem to know what Surrealist cuisine is.
Art
Painting the Violent Life Cycles of Bruises
In his new series at James Cohan Gallery, Mud Root Ochre Leaf Star, Byron Kim paints bruises that radiate tenderness and hurt.
Comics
Simple New Year's Resolutions
If the dawning of a new year has snuck up on you, here are a few last-minute resolutions you can use.
Art
Mining Portraits of the Past for Stories of Our Shared Humanity
Whitfield Lovell reinterprets found imagery and references evocative cultural touchstones to add further layers and textures to his drawings and mixed media installations.
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A Major Museum Show Maps Martin Scorsese's Raging World
The Museum of the Moving Image's new exhibition on Scorsese brings together some 600 objects — many from the director's personal collection — and countless visual and aural excerpts spanning his more than 40 years of filmmaking.
Art
Love It to Death: My Year in Music
The best work of 2016 in the land of metal, noise, avant rock, out-there jazz, and in-there experimental.
Art
Setting Aluminum Animals Loose on the Streets of Detroit
On a recent frigid, polar vortex night, husband-and-wife public art duo Hygienic Dress League set out in a van with a flock of aluminum-molded animals.
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Drawing Refugees' Stories on Life Jackets
For Project Life Jacket, an artist illustrated Syrian refugees' memories of their lives before the war on flotation devices.
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Best of 2016: Our Top 10 Los Angeles Art Shows
These top 10 shows in no way capture a full overview of the art seen in LA this year, but they provide highlights of the rapidly developing artistic landscape of the city.