Art
The exhibition 24 Arguments,which emerged from research conducted by the Institute of the Present, offers works that are heavily influenced by newly forged global dialogues.
Art
The Frick Collection presents the work of Bertoldo di Giovanni, an understated yet pivotal figure during the Renaissance, long described as a disciple of Donatello and a tutor of Michelangelo.
Art
Packed with traced and freehand marks, Mehretu’s artworks inspire awe of what might be called an informational sublime, a 21st-century twist on the artistic tradition.
Books
Artist and scholar Stefano Bloch has written a story that is personal, but also a primer on graffiti’s history and artistic and social import.
Books
In Wright's poems the name of the absolute is scrawled in a host of esoteric tongues.
Books
Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? illustrates that Capital is actually dead. Something new and much worse, involving what author McKenzie Wark calls "the vector" has usurped it.
Books
In Joseph Donahue’s Wind Maps I-VII we are led out of sleep by the poet, just as he has been led out of sleep by a dream guide, into a renewal of mythic or storied truth.
Art
While his political commitment comes through in many works, it’s hard to square talk of “revolution” with Ai Weiwei’s staggering mainstream US success.
Art
Spanning half a century, this retrospective reveals Denes's art to be so forward-looking that some of it remains ahead of its time even today.
Art
Kirchner was the anti-Matisse.
Art
John Pai’s steel sculptures, nourished by a community of Korean artists in New York, reflect a sensibility outside the mainstream of American art.
Art
A show at Vienna’s Albertina reverses the more commonly held belief in art history that drawings are merely preparatory to paintings.