Art
In her memoir, The Girl Who Fell to Earth (2012), Sophia Al-Maria, who was raised as a bicultural Muslim, says she feels like a “deep-sea diver, adjusting constantly to the pressures of […] two very different environments.”
Art
If you should not judge a book by its cover? What about the living room you grew up in? What do its contents say about you? Does its décor reflect who you are?
Art
Speaking very generally and just of figurative art: sculpture creates a world around itself, and painting creates a world inside itself.
Music
Like the idiot I am, I got Grimes’s Art Angels very wrong when it surfaced last year.
Art
TOKYO — It’s not often that a major art museum hosts an exhibition for a poet.
Art
The lobby gallery at the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-designed midtown office tower at 1285 Avenue of the Americas, with its partitioned walls flanked by floor-to-ceiling windows on the north and south sides of the building, is unusually well-suited for both casual and concentrated encounters with art
Art
DETROIT — Nancy Mitchnick's representations of places — whether they refer to actual locations or states of mind — ricochet out into the real world, conveying a sense of how a place looks based on how it feels.
Books
Post–World War II, architects were confident that a better life could be built, that design could improve society through efficiency and community.
Interview
At the Brooklyn Museum in June, Elizabeth Sackler read from James Baldwin's “An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis.”
In Brief
St. Petersburg residents will vote on how to dress a replica statue of Michelangelo's "David" that came to the city in May, following a complaint from a woman who said his nudity "spoils the city's historic appearance and warps children's souls."
Interview
LOS ANGELES — Breasts, arms, legs, fingers, halved torsos, and a hairy mustache. These are some of the body parts represented in porcelain, paint, photography, and mixed media in Fragmented Gaze, curated by Loren Britton at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Los Angeles.
Art
EAST LANSING, Mich. — It’s most intuitive to equate activism with a kind of direct action: collecting signatures, participating in a public protest, sending sharply worded letters, community organizing.