Art
Why Grown-Ups Should Play With Artists' Books Designed for Kids
A gloriously tactile exhibit at the Center for Book Arts offers a refreshing sense of playfulness in this age of anxiety.
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Film
The Anarchic Movies of Ronald Rice, a 1960s Underground Filmmaker Who Died at 29
With just a handful of films to his name, Rice is a seminal, if little seen, New York filmmaker who embraced a rowdy improvisational approach.
Art
The Unsung Heroes of Burning Man Go Unnoticed
A host of creative, kind, brave, funny people go unsung in No Spectators, which is centered on a narrow, affluent segment of the Burning Man population.
News
Art Movements
Anti-ICE activists run into trouble at the Statue of Liberty, ominous "hunger stones" appear amidst European drought, and an unlucky visitor falls into Anish Kapoor's "Descent into Limbo.”
Film
Searching Is the Latest Movie to Be Told Entirely on a Computer Screen
In Searching, a man begins scouring his daughter's computer and social media presence after she goes missing.
News
The Blanton Museum Gifts 500 Works to Texas Museums, and German Museum Gets 150 Beuys Works
Plus, M+ in Hong Kong acquires all of Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries's works, and the Millennium Sapphire is purchased for $50 million.
Art
150 Phalluses in Feminist Art Today
In the Cut is a seductive and enigmatic mental play in which it becomes possible, inescapable in fact, to glimpse the world through a feminine lens.
Art
The Luminous Effects of a Light and Space Painter
It is Mary Corse’s use of the humble paint brush that allows the viewer to become sensitive to how light is dispersed in the space they occupy.
Books
Inside Guantanamo Bay: A Photographer Documents America's Most Heavily Guarded Prison
Debi Cornwall offers a vivid and unsettling glimpse of the infamous US detention center in her book Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantanamo Bay.
Interview
An Art Handler's Magazine Breaks Down Art World Myths
Clynton Lowry on acknowledging the invisible people of the art world: art handlers and preparators.
Art
David Wojnarowicz’s Native American Inspiration and the “Killing Machine Called America”
Though Wojnarowicz, like most Americans, viewed Indians through a romanticized lens, his interest in the shared death space of those marked as expendable reveals the possibility for collaboration beyond life.
Comics
Writing Your Own Eulogy
The grandest form of working backward.