Opinion

Required Reading

This week, Malevich's "Black Square," paying comic artists, sexism in club culture, Egyptian photo archive goes Creative Commons, Irish slaves, encyclopedia of pasta, and more.

Opinion

Weekend Words: Change

Last week, the world lost Ornette Coleman, whose 1959 releases The Shape of Jazz to Come and Change of the Century marked the advent of free jazz and changed the face of music forever.

Art

Rowdy Celebrations

A few months ago, I saw a painting by Peter Reginato for the first time. It was on the streets of Manhattan.

Music

The Real Real

Kendrick Lamar may not be the Best Rapper Alive, but except for a few thesaurus users from the hip-hop underground he may very well be the most intellectual.

Art

Fabulous Immediacies and Epic Trajectories: Joan Miró’s Late Paintings

How did postwar New York painting influence one of its foremost European progenitors? This question is posed as a partial rationale for Nahmad Contemporary’s current show Joan Miró: Oiseux Dans L’Espace.

Art

Colored Dots and Brass Tacks: The Paintings of Andrew Forge

“They take a long time to make.” That’s what the British artist and writer Andrew Forge said when he was “questioned as to the meaning of his paintings,” according to an obituary that ran in The Telegraph

Art

In Bushwick, an Exhibition Tears Down Walls Between Art and Craft

Neo-Craftivism, a group show at the Parlour Bushwick, brings together works by nine artists that dynamite the tired old boundaries separating craft and art.

Art

A Nighttime Journey Through Minneapolis in Search of Art

MINNEAPOLIS — How do you measure artistic success?

In Brief

Researchers Decipher the Map That May Have Guided Columbus Westward

You might call Henricus Martellus's 1491 world map — which many believe Christopher Columbus consulted before setting out on his voyage — a symbol of the limits of human knowledge.

Art

Political Cartoons from a Golden Age of British Satire

In late 18th-century Britain, etched cartoons and caricatures abounded, poking fun at kings, noblemen, society ladies, French revolutionaries, the institution of marriage, and countless other people and things.

In Brief

Newly Discovered Photo Offers a Glimpse of van Gogh, Gauguin, and Other Drunk Artists

While Vincent van Gogh's self-portraits were a significant part of his painting career, no confirmed photographs of the artist as an adult are known to exist.

News

Death With Dignity: German Collective Reburies Deceased Migrants in Berlin

This morning in Berlin, a small crowd gathered around an open cemetery grave to pay their respects to a 60-year-old Syrian refugee.