Art
SYNAPSE curators Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin set out to investigate the Anthropocene hypothesis: that humanity’s impact on the earth has been so great that it necessitates a new geological age.
Comics
A yearlong moratorium might be in order.
Art
At this very moment, Vermeer may be spinning like a lathe in his grave. Or, just maybe, he’s executing a slow, pleasurable shimmy. In either case, the proximate cause would be Walk-In Pantry, an installation at Fridman Gallery by the artist Summer Wheat.
Art
Clare Grill is a painter based in Queens. She has shown consistently, if not quietly, over the last few years.
News
You’re never too old to follow your dreams, or so the saying goes.
Art
In the video game Off-Peak, you're trapped in a train station that's a surreal concoction of New York City architecture
Opinion
In the past few decades, cultural institutions in the West have increasingly felt pressure to return artifacts acquired through questionable means during the colonial era.
Opinion
This week, swapping a run-down house and a Henry Moore sculpture, only 18% of Artforum covers have featured art by women, the mysterious world of the "sneakernet," how Imelda Marcos bought a Goya, and more.
Opinion
This week it was reported that the first recordings ever made by Elvis Presley, "My Happiness" and "That’s When Your Heartaches Begin" (both 1953), have been digitized and will be released by Jack White’s Third Man Records.
Poetry
“Why should I look at this [art] instead of out the window?” asks Bill Berkson in one of the prose poems from his stellar new collection, Expect Delays.
Art
I urge viewers not to miss the rare opportunity to linger over Julia Fish’s paintings and drawings, which were last exhibited in New York in 2005. A group of recent works can be seen in Julia Fish: Threshold, currently on display at David Nolan Gallery.
Music
Whoever declared guitar-rock dead way back when forgot to tell Sleater-Kinney.