Art
Soviet-Era Musical Records Up-Cycled from X-Rays
Rather than etched on vinyl, tiny grooves were cut onto a medical X-ray, tracing shallow circles over the ghostly shapes of bones.
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Film
A New Film Charts 150 Years of African-American Art
Black Is the Color, a 50-minute documentary, offers a survey of African-American art from 1867 to today.
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Required Reading
This week, a new self-driving car, Kara Walker in New Orleans, #MeToo in the art and architecture worlds, the death of a historic Greenwich Village building, a gallerist quits art fairs, and more.
Books
Fusing Language and Landscape in Poetry
Lynn Melnick’s poetry — particularly its themes of sexual abuse, rape culture, violence, sex work, and drug use — pushes the boundary between public and private.
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When a Painting Becomes an Incantation
Douglas Florian’s choice of words reminds us how much our nation indulges in name-calling and name checks.
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Laurel Nakadate’s Diary of Mourning
Nakadate’s The Kingdom is haunted by grief and irrevocable loss.
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The Great Victim
The oppressor assumes the role of the oppressed.
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Family, Landscape, and Race in Sally Mann’s Photographs
Mann’s historical and social explorations are anchored in her embrace of her identity as a Southerner.
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Nature Painting as Rorschach Test
Colin Brant paints a peaceable kingdom of leopards, orangutans, owls, and parrots.
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Carrie Moyer Reaches for the Stars
Moyer’s new paintings revel in color and visual pleasure, scrambling distinctions between abstraction and representation.
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Culinary Delights and Other Fine Finds at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair
From a book about a cat's ghost to vintage French recipes, there are plenty of unusual — and expensive — finds at this fair.
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Aesthetics Matter at the Volta Art Fair
A century after the emergence of Dada, Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont's curated section is all about political collage.