News
Peekaboo, the NYPD Is Watching You!
The New York Police Department (NYPD) wants to regain the trust of the New Yorkers it alienated with recent controversies like “Stop-and-Frisk” and the killing of Eric Garner.
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Art
The World's Largest Wildlife Sound Archive and the Urgency of Preserving Noise
Digital archives are essential for sharing information and encouraging its preservation, especially for sound.
Art
On a Block in Chicago, a Participatory Project Visualizes Jail Data
CHICAGO — It was a broiling Midwestern day, the kind Chicago is famous for.
Books
The Books that Taught American Women to Camp in the Early 20th Century
Books aimed at women on pitching tents, cooking on campfires, dressing for hikes, and surviving in the wild were published in the United States, as more and more women went out into the woods.
Art
Mark Bradford Maps the Suffering of Bodies
LOS ANGELES — Visitors to Scorched Earth, Mark Bradford’s exhibition at the Hammer Museum, are greeted in the lobby by a map that shows the US population infected with AIDS by state.
Comics
Artists Never Know Their Importance
I know it's not good to romanticize the whole "sad tortured artist" thing …
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the death of the US dance critic, Black Lives Matter at the Venice Biennale, James Baldwin's FBI file, "Happy Birthday"'s copyright shenanigans, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Currency
China weakened its currency, the renminbi, several days in a row this week, raising fears that the country’s massive economy may be in deep trouble.
Art
Artists of the Dark: “Night Visions: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860–1960”
Nighttime darkness compresses space and alters colors, making ordinary places both more terrifying and more freeing, changing the social dynamic of those who walk in them.
Poetry
The Drama in the Everyday: Bernadette Mayer's Early Poems
I first began reading the works of Bernadette Mayer in 1975 or 1976, contemporaneous with their publications. While I didn’t realize it at the time, Mayer wroten them in her late 20s and early 30s, quite close to my own age.
Art
Failing Better: Erroneous Art at Lisa Cooley
There’s a bit of curatorial sleight-of-hand in I Dropped the Lemon Tart, the summer show at Lisa Cooley on the Lower East Side. The title refers to a real-life mishap in a restaurant kitchen where imminent culinary fiasco turned into a triumph of pluck and invention.
Art
Tales from the Darkside: Narrative Drawings at the Hunterdon Art Museum
CLINTON, NJ — To the Best of My Recollection is a rich, nasty and spirited show of works on paper by four Brooklyn-based artists in one of the most idyllic spots in western New Jersey.