Art
Finding Love and Community in Nicole Eisenman's Paintings
One thing that is immediately apparent in Al-Ugh-Ories, Nicole Eisenman's show at the New Museum, is her streak of resistance.
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Books
The Politics of Seeing, Being, and Visibility in Photography
It doesn’t seem right to call the latest issue of Aperture — its first issue dedicated to African American lives as represented by the medium of photography — a magazine. It is a powerhouse book; it does so much heavy lifting.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, bohemian Paris, a strange satirical Trump video, a floating villa, the disappearance of the rifle emoji, livestreaming death, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Summer
"I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year."
Books
Reader’s Diary: Man Ray's ‘Writings on Art’
Jennifer Mundy acknowledges in her Preface to Man Ray’s Writings on Art that, compared to his friends Duchamp and Picabia, he has come to be seen as something of a lightweight.
Opinion
Nicole Eisenman: An Exchange
Editor's Note: This letter to the editor was received this week and is presented here (without editing). It is followed by a response by the author, John Yau.
Art
Joanne Greenbaum’s Amazing Parties
Joanne Greenbaum began making tiny sculptures out of Sculpey in 2003.
Music
Chance the Rapper’s Musical Playground
Not since fellow Chicago icon Kanye West’s The College Dropout in 2004 has a rapper invented a totally new aesthetic so happy, so inspirational, so kind and funny and friendly and committed to making everybody feel welcome.
Art
Following Sophie Calle
In April 1981, a detective followed the French artist Sophie Calle through the streets of Paris for one day.
Art
Agnes Martin, Irreproducible
When a cloud passes overhead, the paintings all but disappear.
Art
At Art Basel, Restating the Obvious
BASEL, Switzerland — The opening of Art Basel earlier this week wasn’t anything you wouldn’t expect at the Swiss fair: The world’s wealthiest were queuing at the entrance, half-forcing their way in by pushing and jumping, in the same way that people run into Walmart on Boxing Day.
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Even If You’re Bad at It, Making Art Can Reduce Stress
For wannabe Michelangelos, Sunday painters, and art class dunces alike, making art can help reduce levels of the stress hormone cortisol, a new study suggests.