Art

Guston After Trump and Before Christmas

I don’t know if laughter is the best medicine: sometimes it is the only medicine.

Art

I’d Prefer Not To: 'Enacting Stillness' at The 8th Floor

Overall, the work in Enacting Stillness suggests that, contrary to some of the grander claims made about art’s political efficacy, most art intervenes in the world in a more limited, but no less essential, way.

Art

Liberation Theology: Ragnar Kjartansson’s “God”

At one point, watching Kjartansson’s facial expression grow increasingly blissed-out and almost absent, his eyes directed heavenward, I sensed an echo of Bernini’s ecstatic St. Teresa.

Interview

Beep Beep: An Interview with Brandon Brown

“The momentary eternal sounds like heaven to me.”

Art

What’s Not For Sale: Hollis Heichemer’s Imminence

The thing Hollis Heichemer depicts, if we can call it a thing, seems to be visual experience itself.

Art

Leah Tacha: In the Zone

Leah Tacha doesn't poach styles or genres for their own sake. She has found a personal through-line in her enthusiasms that allows her to both plumb her moment and link to our collective past.

Art

The Life Emphatic with Valentin de Boulogne

While the name “Caravaggio” inevitably rides along in the title of the show, it is there to assert that we are moving “beyond.”

In Brief

An Irish Artist and a Canadian Activist Join the Ranks of Women on Currency

Designer and architect Eileen Gray appears on a new commemorative coin from the Central Bank of Ireland, and civil rights activist Viola Desmond will be on Canada's new $10 bill.

Hyperallergic

Art After Trump, a Night of Creative Responses to the Election

On December 15, Hyperallergic will co-present a marathon night of readings and performances at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe.

In Brief

The Art World Called It: Greenery Is Pantone's Color of the Year

The perennial paint purveyor is championing "a fresh and zesty yellow-green shade that evokes the first days of spring" as the defining tone of 2017.

Art

Paint a Lost Past in a Game Inspired by Irish Folklore

"Scéal" is a game on a ghost's journey that unfolds like a storybook, its painting-like animation inspired by Irish folklore.

Comics

Time to Dig In

This is the time.