Art
Bill Scott acknowledges that the Garden of Eden is a fiction, and yet he is willing to paint his versions of that place, not as a way to make that garden great again, but to insist that pleasure is a crucial ideal for survival.
Art
The nine artists in 1970’s: 9 Women and Abstraction infuse their art with an unexpected warmth, humanity, and quirkiness that feel all the more invigorating when compared with the cerebral objectification prized by their male Minimalist counterparts.
Art
Titus Kaphar's The Vesper Project is a complex, multimedia project that dissolves the boundary between reality and fiction.
Art
The sculptures on view in White Column's project room feel like the results of a lot of daydreaming by Joe Howe, who is now 87.
In Brief
The new website Radio Garden allows you to click through radio stations as they stream in real time, from hundreds of cities in the world.
Art
The British painter Denzil Forrester, who is currently showing at White Columns, talks about how he made art and was a fly on the wall at reggae and dub music venues.
Art
Producing a multi-city, multi-venue, multimedia contemporary art event is a major undertaking anywhere, but doing so in the environment of Palestine today is fairly miraculous.
Comics
Some things are perfect.
Performance
L’Amour de Loin, by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, receives a dazzling production that sets the self-aware tale of unrequited love on a flickering sea of LED lights.
Art
One of the more curious recurring images on 19th-century Christmas cards is the dead bird, which may symbolize mortality or something more ritualistic.
Art
With the Day for Night festival, the Barbara Jordan Post Office invites visitors to reconsider what the colossal concrete building could be for Houston.
Art
Over the next four years, New Cities, Future Ruins plans on a series of intelligent and creative projects that will face the cultural and environmental realities of the Sun Belt.