Books
An Artist’s 50-Year Project to Alter and Deconstruct a Victorian Novel
After five decades of mutating an obscure Victorian novel, Thomas Phillips's A Humument is printed in its final form.
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Art
Printing Two Perspectives on Indigenous Lives
In his new series, Brian Jungen explores how the Canadian media have told the stories of First Nations people.
Opinion
Art After Trump: A Wish List
The art world is part of the actual world. Let’s imagine and reflect the society we want to live in.
Books
A Work of Comics Journalism Relays Refugees' Stories from Iraq, Syria, and Turkey
In 2010, cartoonist Sarah Glidden embarked on a trip with two reporters to speak to refugees and make a book about how journalism works.
Art
Tripping Through Hélio Oiticica’s Mythical World
To Organize Delirium at the Carnegie Museum of Art is Hélio Oiticica's second retrospective in the US and is the first to delve into the Brazilian artist's critical New York years.
Comics
Revenge of the Landscape Painter
Sometimes trees get in the way.
Books
Christmas at Midcentury, When Aluminum Trees Replaced Victorian Evergreens
A new book by Sarah Archer explores the influence of the Space Race and Cold War on America's midcentury Christmas celebrations.
Art
A Droning Chant of Our Ceaseless Media Consumption
Mitchell F. Chan's sound piece "Infinite Newsfeed" turns New York Times headlines into monotone chants that reverberate through his new exhibition.
Performance
Drag Ballerinas Spin Gender Roles into Farce
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo satirizes the clichéd gender conventions of dance, and the world at large, in technically superb takes on classical ballet.
Opinion
When the "Brooklyn Artist" Is a Commodity
Happy holidays, Brooklyn artists: your livelihoods have been apotheosized into a singular, hot commodity.
Poetry
Art After Trump: Turning to Women Authors
I revisited the books I read after the election and made a poem, or conversation, out of some of the things I underlined.
Art
Seeing Through Oscar Wilde's Dandy Façade
An exhibition in Paris explores the Irish wit's literary exploits, aesthetic tastes, and friendships with artists.