Interview
Beer with a Painter: Katherine Bradford
“Jen! Welcome to Maine!” Katherine Bradford exclaims brightly as she spots me crossing the street.
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Music
How Do Rock Heroes Sing?: Beyoncé, Rihanna, and the Megastar Vocal Style
The relevant split isn’t rock vs. pop (both are “pop” artists) but expressive vs. functional, always the key distinction in how pop music presents itself.
Books
Testing Form: Novels by Alejandro Zambra and Matías Celedón
Solely in geographical terms, Chilean culture has issued forth from a matrix of constraint. The Argentine writer Ezequiel Martínez Estrada remarked that “Chile is perhaps the most poorly located and poorly shaped nation on the planet.
Books
The Secret Life of Infrastructure: Lynn Saville’s 'Dark City'
Realism is the default mode for street photography — in New York, anyway — so it is impressive when a photographer transcends the genre by embracing the attributes and effects of a different approach.
Art
Sending Collage Down a Rabbit Hole
If you’re looking for clues to the dizzying imagery of Tim Spelios’s collages, you’re not going to get very far.
Books
The Fantastic Fall of a Boisterous and Beloved Gilded Age Artist
In one of the many licentious anecdotes from Robert Winthrop Chanler: Discovering the Fantastic, the Gilded Age artist throws a party in his Gramercy Park "House of Fantasy" so raucous that his neighbors across the street — who happen to be painter George Bellows and his family — call the cops.
In Brief
New York Is Getting a 16-Story, $150 Million Staircase to Nowhere
Influenced by the M.C. Escher-esque designs of Indian stepwells, British starchitect Thomas Heatherwick has unveiled plans for a giant stairway to nowhere in New York City's Hudson Yards.
Art
New Horizons in Road Trip Photography
MEMPHIS — The American tradition of road photography has typically captured a certain spirit of adventure, a search for unexpected beauty, oddity, maybe even enlightenment out there in the far corners of the country.
Film
A New Wave of Syrian Films Exposes the Failure of Images
In an increasingly appalling atmosphere of political stagnation, failed negotiations, and yet another ceasefire that won't last, there is at least some good news coming out from Syria these days.
Interview
An Artist Takes Up Residence in Second Life
Although artist Julius Redillas is based in Manila, Philippines, both his day job and much of his art practice are located online.
Opinion
Saying Goodbye to Tamir Rice's Gazebo
CLEVELAND — Shingle by shingle, a crew of workers began the three-day process of taking apart the gazebo at the Cudell Recreation Center where sixth grader Tamir Rice was shot and killed by police within two seconds of their arrival.
Art
The Exhibitors Who Traveled Furthest for the NY Art Book Fair
Over half the exhibitors at this year's Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair are based in the United States, but international exhibitors, as always, have a strong presence, arriving from all corners of the world.