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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Doug Aitken's Masterful Videos and Boring Sculptures
'Electric Earth' illustrates the difficulty of a sweeping retrospective by smashing excellent video work up against shallow sculpture.
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The Ghost Ship Fire and the Paradox of a "Creative City"
We can read into this tragedy the disastrous head-on collision of two conflicting obligations that the "creative city" imposes on itself and its residents.
Art
The Suggestive Compositions of a Mediocre Caravaggist
The Metropolitan Museum's Valentin de Boulogne show clarifies why this French follower of Caravaggio remains lesser-known, despite the leering details in many of his paintings.