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Finding Oneself in Poetry
The poetry of Ariana Reines outlines a utopian prospect where suffering can be transformed into benevolent light.
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Broaching the Subject of Beauty
A look at three paintings from the cusp of the 20th century that make a powerful argument for beauty.
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The Rise and Fall of Three Actresses
In Amanda Lee Koe's debut novel, the lives of Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl are intertwined with changes in the world and with one another.
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An Art Forgery Thriller With Many Narrators but Not Enough Answers
Author Clare Clark's In the Full Light of the Sun raises important questions about the lengths we go to distract ourselves from governmental horrors, and how art can’t save us, but it doesn't manage to find easy answers.
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A Korean “Comfort Woman” Tells Her Story in a Harrowing Comic
Cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim relays the story in a documentarian manner that isn’t for the faint of heart.
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Celebrating the Male Physique in Gay-Adjacent Magazines
Buying Gay is a thorough, and extremely entertaining read that delights in several ways, and especially in terms of David K. Johnson's analysis of the tropes of physique magazines.
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Picturing the Body Through the Camera's Eye
Body: The Photography Book reflects on the possibilities photography opened up for representing human anatomy.
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The Mega-Dealers Who Ate the Art World
It’s abundantly clear that the present system is unsustainable.
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A New Book Culls the Favorite Museum Pieces of World-Famous Artists
For It Speaks to Me, Jori Finkel asked 50 artists, from Marina Abramović to David Hockney, “to discuss a museum piece that intrigues or inspires them from their hometown.”
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What Happened When Fred Wilson Dug Beneath a Museum's Floorboards
The book Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson published in 1994 has particular insights that go beyond institutional critique and into our individual complicities that are crucial to consider now.
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Living in a Renaissance Palace, an Art Historian Uncovers an Amazing Past
When an unexpected opportunity arose to spend her year living in the famed Palazzo Rucellai, Allison Levy seized on it.
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Is George Herriman the Greatest American Visual Artist?
Out of seemingly meager materials, Herriman created a complete world, a place where nothing ever changes and where his characters never develop, yet his sense of humor is almost infallible.