Art
Artists from Turkey Navigate History, Memory, and Authorship
ISTANBUL — The authorship of the exhibition, which initially seems clear and dictated by the space, is flipped by the meanings and messages of the works on view.
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Art
Playing at Women's Liberation, World War I, and Colonialism in Vintage Board Games
In the 1917 board game "Suffragetto," two players compete as either police or suffragettes to defend their political bases.
Interview
“Your Shiny Plastic Future Is a Load of Crap”: Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke's #Additivism
Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke’s expansive project #Additivism is a call for the radical rethinking of new technologies like 3D printing, the plastification of the world, and the position of humans within it.
Comics
Success Is the Little Things
Whenever something really great happens I start to get kinda superstitious.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, MoMA's museum guard dog, Damien Hirst does Queen Elizabeth II, Philadelphia's hidden graff corridor, a profile of Daniel Clowes, Pee-Wee Herman talks about his art influences, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Six
After deftly taking out Marco Rubio in the New Hampshire debate, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey was rewarded with sixth place in the nation’s first primary vote and exited the presidential arena “without an ounce of regret.”
Film
A Test of Faith: Jacques Rivette's Story of Marie and Julien
No one is quite likeable in Jacques Rivette’s 2003 film, The Story of Marie and Julien.
Art
Starting in 1963, a Photographer Spends His Life Exploring Worlds We Have Yet to Recognize
This is Barboza in a nutshell: headstrong and determined. He did move New York and go to the school he found in the telephone book, but not for long because it wasn’t serious enough.
Opinion
Follow-Up to My Review: Does the Museum of Modern Art Even Know About This Great Photographer?
Very soon after my review of Louis Draper was published in Hyperallergic Weekend (February 7, 2016), I got an email from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and from the Museum of Modern Art.
Books
The Kimono, Examined: A New Book and a Definitive Collection
In the West, is there any garment more elegant than a tuxedo, one that makes its wearer, no matter what size or age, almost always look (and feel) great? In the East — specifically, in Japan — the kimono may be a similar, inestimable costume.
Art
Paint as Language, Language as Paint: Paul D’Agostino’s Chromatic Alphabet
The fluency of concept and form in Paul D’Agostino’s new, bifurcated show at Life on Mars marks a further consolidation of his rigorous attention to language and the infinity of ways it can be parsed, subverted, and remade.
News
Dive into Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" in Virtual Reality
Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights" already offers its own immersive, bizarre experience, with scenes of Eden and hell framing a hallucinatory garden.