Art

A Designer Experiments with Digital Design, After 60 Years of Handcrafted Furniture

Designer Wendell Castle has made a career out of challenging the boundaries that define art and furniture.

Comics

A Super Scientific Analysis of Mimetic Behavior in Artists

Eyeballs recognize something beautiful is present.

Opinion

Required Reading

This week, Calatrava's new Brazilian museum, an intergenerational dialogue in the arts, Chicago artists respond to the Laquan MacDonald video, issues with public art in New York, and more.

Opinion

Weekend Words: Star

The greatly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the seventh installment in the series, opened this weekend.

Art

Master of the Lost, Neglected, and Overlooked

A number of innovative artists of the first half of the 20th century discovered and worked with collage and the related practice of assemblage.

Art

For the Love of Paint

Ambition has nothing to do with scale. The largest painting in Eleanor Ray: paintings at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects measures 10 x 8 inches.

Books

Keep Looking: Rebecca Wolff’s 'One Morning—.'

So serene an entry point into this volume, the title One Morning—. promises the lengthening of sunlight across the expanse of a modest domestic existence, incidents without excitement.

Music

Carly Rae Jepsen, Antipersona

Carly Rae Jepsen is the emptiest pop diva to have released an album this year, and that’s not an insult.

Art

Speak, Memory: Becky Suss’s Painterly Anthropology

In his 1973 essay “Approaches to What?,” an underground classic of documentary aesthetics, French writer Georges Perec opposes the drive to find meaning primarily in “the big event, the untoward, the extra-ordinary: the front-page splash, the banner headlines.”

Art

Built-In Fracture: Donald Baechler in the 1980s

In the thoroughly absorbing exhibition Donald Baechler: Early Work 1980 to 1984 at Cheim & Read, there are two works, both from 1982, in which the artist appears to be unlearning how to draw.

Art

Death by a Thousand Operas

DETROIT — Arms flung wide, Joseph Keckler collapses to the floor and dies.

In Brief

A Digital Re-creation of a Lost 18th-Century Shakespeare Museum

One of the first museums created for the enjoyment of the middle class was the Shakespeare Gallery, opened in 1789 by John Boydell.