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.
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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.
Art
Merry Christmas from Krampus, Santa's Demonic Helper
Krampuskarten depict Saint Nicholas's darker counterpart: the devilish Krampus, whose current image visually carries centuries of folklore.
Art
The British Artist Who Painted Through War and Found Surrealism
A retrospective devoted to the British painter Paul Nash shifts the focus from his radical interpretations of war and Surrealism to his innovative use of color.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: San Francisco's Academy of Art University agreed to pay the city a $60-million settlement, a Manhattan art dealer was charged with trafficking illegal antiquities, and the first UK exhibition dedicated to the Moomins opened in London.