Art

Betsy Kaufman Takes the Grid to Task

Betsy Kaufman works out on paper what she is going to do in the painting — a series of distinct steps, each requiring complete control.

Music

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year: She & Him, Kacey Musgraves, Amy Grant, The Killers

Just like intimacy, holiday spirit exists simply because you believe it does. That’s why Christmas is so eternally rock & roll.

Art

It’s What You Make, Not What You Get

Color is the organizing principle of Jane Piper’s work, which builds upon the tradition of early Modernist painting.

Art

Shari Mendelson: Message in a Bottle

Shari Mendelson's artifacts emerge from her subconscious as much as from her enthusiasm for her subject matter. In turn, they appeal to something preconscious in the viewer.

Art

Aesthetic Interference: On Those Photos from Ankara

I don’t just see the images as documents of atrocity. I also see them as aesthetic, and that doesn’t sit easily. Indeed, it feels immoral. It feels wrong.

Comics

Maybe It's an Homage

That's one way of looking at it.

Interview

Artist Targeted by #Pizzagate Conspiracy Theory Speaks

After being dragged into one of 2016's strangest news stories over a mural he made six years ago, Arrington de Dionyso took a public stand against far-right extremists' mob censorship.

Art

Best of 2016: Our Top 15 Brooklyn Art Shows

We could never leave Brooklyn and still miss a slew of shows in our home borough. From outdoor art along the waterfront to group shows in Bushwick and ambitious political projects at Dumbo nonprofits, there was no shortage of great work in Brooklyn in 2016.

Art

An Artist Embraces the Magic Symbols that Helped Send Him to Death Row

At Day for Night festival, Damien Echols invited visitors to engage with the occult symbols that helped lead to his wrongful murder conviction.

Art

Why We Still Need Thomas More's ‘Utopia’ in 2016

At least among the current neoliberal order’s dissidents, More’s imagination continue to inspire, 500 years after he shared it with the world.

Art

Mark Dion Reimagines a Pioneering Botanist's Lab

The former winter home of Dr. David Fairchild in Miami now houses a permanent installation that Dion extrapolated from the botanist's life and work.

Poetry

Art After Trump: An Alphabetical Arrangement

From aggregated apathy to zealous zombie.