Art
Ming Smith’s Necessary Angels
The rich and varied evocation of passing moments, memories, and dreams that we encounter in Ming Smith’s photographs are things that the incoming President will continue to denigrate and do his best to erase.
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Art
The Women’s March: The First 28 Hours
A drawing report from Day 1 of the resistance movement.
Art
Outsider Art: Window to the Soul
The Gnostics believed that a demiurge, a being violently hostile to all things spiritual, rules the material world. Its control of things is now nearly absolute.
Art
Great Balls of Fire: Arthur Jafa at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
Set to Kanye West’s languorously sublime hip hop gospel track, “Ultralight Beam,” the visuals in Arthur Jafa’s seven-minute film alternate between eruptions of joy and violence.
Art
Light Makes Things Real
Louise Belcourt’s work has a remarkable ability to make two-dimensional paintings feel three-dimensional.
Art
The Use and Abuse of Paint: ‘Fast Forward’ at the Whitney
The museum should be commended for shining a light on painting, but the show feels like a missed opportunity.
Art
Jenny Holzer’s Blowtorch in the Darkness
When going too far is barely enough.
News
Tania Bruguera Pulls Work from Show at Bronx Museum, Claiming It’s Complicit in Cuban Censorship
The National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana has declined to send artworks to the Bronx Museum as planned, and Tania Bruguera says it "has neglected to tell the whole story."
Art
From Surrealist Sketches to Mythic Visions, Favorites from the Master Drawings Fair
At Master Drawings, art dealers spread their net a bit wider to exhibit rare drawings, watercolors, and oil sketches from the 14th to 20th centuries.
Art
The Beekeeper Who Craved a World Without Right Angles
A man obsessed with hexagons tried to remake the visual world around him.
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DLECTRICITY Art and Light Festival’s Call for Entries Is Now Open
DLECTRICITY is Detroit's festival of art + light that showcases site-specific installations by established and emerging artists from the US and around the world.
Books
Richard Sandler’s Startling Photographs of Pre-9/11 New York
From 1977 to 2001, Richard Sandler photographed startling juxtapositions between the grit and glamour of New York City and Boston.