Opinion
Why Donald Trump Might Not Be All That Good for Art
The argument that "post-election pain" is good for art is cold comfort.
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Performance
A Play Touches on the Power of Touch
The beating heart of My Brother’s a Keeper, performed at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, is an interlude at a bus stop when two characters let go of verbal language.
Art
Ghostly Flowers and Haunting Laughter Light Up a 19th-Century Reservoir
There is no path, map, or cautionary lighting to help you find your winding way through this exhibition.
Art
The Story of Norway’s Multiple July 22 Memorials
Jonas Dahlberg’s "Memory Wound" has been in the international spotlight, but two other memorials commemorate Anders Behring Breivik's 2011 massacre in different, subtler ways.
Comics
Some Things Will Not Change
Everything is different now, but some things will never change.
Art
Soothe Your Post-Election Anxieties with a Magnetic Sound Bath
Artist MJ Caselden is using electroacoustic sculptures to offer immersive sound baths of deep, subtly shifting, and humming tones at Manhattan's apexart gallery.
Art
Required Reading
This week, it's all about the Trumpocalypse, including fake news and other signs of a waning US democracy.
Art
Weekend Words: Block
"Americans will put up with anything as long as it doesn't block traffic."
Books
Reader’s Diary: Pierre Reverdy’s ‘The Song of the Dead’
I daresay Pierre Reverdy is the favorite French poet among American poets. But how well do we really know his work?
Art
The Quick and the Dead
Salvatore Scarpitta’s imagination was wild and full of high jinks. It is one reason why the art world has never known what to do with him.
Art
The Triumph of the Chickens
Like Ralph Ellison, who did not think of the Invisible Man as a protest novel, Kerry James Marshall is interested in the nuances of invisibility, in how much goes unseen, and the many different ways willful blindness manifests itself.
Music
Leonard Cohen R.I.P.
In addition to everything else he was — poet, wordsmith, conceptmaster, religious seeker, suave scruffy ladies’ man, Zen monk, belated concert fixture — he was also a major political songwriter.