Books
Reader’s Diary: Bernadette Mayer’s 'Sonnets'
My editors asked me for notes on books I’d been reading — about three hundred words. I’ve already figured out that it’s not in me to be quite that concise.
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Art
Mark Greenwold’s Passion for Details
In Mark Greenwold's pencil drawing “Josie” (2015), at least three people and an oversized cat are gathered in a room under what looks like a skylight. A bespectacled man on the drawing’s right-hand side is wearing boxer shorts and a t-shirt, his erect penis poking through his shorts.
Art
With a New Remixes Album, Yoko Ono’s Music Goes Back to the Future — Again
Imagine Yoko Ono. The internationally known artist, who has worked across a wide range of genres and media, celebrated her 83rd birthday about two weeks ago.
Art
Tripping Out: The Upended Landscapes of Shara Hughes
For her solo debut at Marlborough Chelsea, Shara Hughes presents eight near-dizzying kaleidoscopic paintings of landscapes and oceans.
Art
A Painter's Progress: Monique Mouton’s Rough Edges
Deceptively casual and casually deceptive, Monique Mouton’s abstract paintings at Bridget Donahue on the Lower East Side are simple statements wrought from a density of decision-making, starting with the often irregular shape she chooses as a surface.
Art
Surf China's Censored Web at an Internet Cafe in New York
It may have been a while since you've set foot in an internet cafe, but a pop-up one on the Lower East Side offering free tea on top of free wifi is well worth a visit for a lesson in online freedoms.
In Brief
Botticelli’s Hallucinatory ‘Divine Comedy’ Drawings Return to England After 130 Years
Lucifer gobbles up the souls of three traitors in an icy inferno, sinners are cooked in baths of tar, and a gauzy-robed Beatrice floats in the heavens.
Art
Digitally Sewn Photographs that Extend Our Depth of Vision
Turkish photographer Aydın Büyüktaş describes his surreal photographic series Flatland as a “multidimensional romantic point of view.”
Film
An Ojibway Prophecy Reimagined on Film
What does it mean to be Ojibway now, in 2016?
Art
At a Generally Flat Art on Paper Fair, Some Cutting Works
“My kid could do that” is the world’s most clichéd dismissal of Modern art.
News
Art Movements
This week in art news: the international criminal court began its first war crimes trial for the destruction of cultural monuments, scientists claimed to have identified Banksy using geographic profiling, and Iggy Pop posed as a nude life model for New York Academy of Art students.
Art
From a Wedding Dress to a Dagger, Examining the Gifts Countries Give Each Other
In alignment with the focus on contemporary African art, fair organizers appointed Kapwani Kiwanga as this year’s Armory Artist Commission.