Books
M. Sharkey’s Luminous Photos of Queer Kids in the US
The light in Sharkey’s images doesn’t so much cover his subjects but illuminates them from within.
Latest
Books
In a New Book About Unions and Financial Capitalism, Lessons for the Arts
"Unions Renewed" explores the changing role of organized labor under financial capitalism. It maps meaningfully onto the arts.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Dennis Cooper, white savior cinema, the maker of Bernie's mittens, a decolonial Qur’an, Ishmael Reed, and more.
Art
What a Painter Taught Me
Coming from a secular perspective, it seems strange to speak, in almost mystical terms, of being taken out of oneself.
Art
Martin Puryear’s Open Questions
To focus on Puryear’s devotion to craft and the handmade is valid, but now seems too narrow a view.
Art
The Melancholy Marriage of Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch
What do Emin and Munch have in common other than a burning desire to embrace, and be defined by, the miseries of life?
Books
Writing from Another World
Eric Baus’s sentences follow the rules of grammar, but something inexplicable happens by the time you reach the end.
Film
Pieces of a Woman Falls to Pieces
What begins as a trenchant exploration of losing a child becomes a Lifetime-esque affair that strays so sharply from a mother’s grief that it feels a bit like a betrayal.
Music
Playboi Carti’s Impressionist Rap
Carti’s willingness to disappear runs counter to the egotist individualism that has characterized rap since its inception.
News
The Internet Can’t Get Enough of Bundled-up Bernie Memes
Due to overwhelming demand, we bring you a fresh batch of viral mitten-clad Bernie memes.
News
Copy of Salvator Mundi Discovered In Naples Apartment
The 500-year-old painting, likely the work of a student of Leonardo, was found in a bedroom cupboard in the southern Italian city.
Art
How BTS’s Internet Presence Feeds “ARMY” Meme Production
Through hashtags and others forms of social content, the K-pop idol group creates an open, interpretative framework for the back-and-forth exchanges of visual content and meanings between BTS and its fandom, called ARMY.