Art
Where Artists and Amazon Workers Align
I saw The Fulfillment Center months ago, but as time passed it wore on me and I became increasingly concerned about the workers — I mean artists — and more ambivalent about the commodities — I mean art.
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Film
A Decade of the Most Memorable Film Scores From Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
From HBO's Watchmen to The Social Network and Gone Girl, their soundtracks have constituted some of the best of the 2010s.
Art
Longing to Know More About David Bomberg, Who Blazed Like a Comet Through London's Stuffy Art Scene
Young Bomberg and the Old Masters, presented in a finite form, could have been so much bigger, more ambitious, and more intellectually adventurous.
Art
A Dystopian, David Lynch-Inspired Video Game That Leaves Its Meaning Up to You
Taking its inspiration from magical realism, Southern Gothic, Tennessee Williams, and much more — act five of Kentucky Route Zero presents an unusual collage of touchstones for a young art form generally consumed with self-references.
Film
Powerful Images of Pleasure and Experimentation Celebrate Queer Bodies
MoMA's screening series "Now We Think as We Fuck": Queer Liberation to Activism argues for the inclusion of less respectable films in the queer canon.
Music
The Marvelous Variety of Straightforward Rap
Fans and critics will tell you that 2019 was a lousy year for consensus in rap.
Books
Welcome Back, William Gibson
In Agency, Gibson’s unequaled sequel to The Peripheral (2014), characters return from the future, virtually and with a vengeance.
Books
The Extraordinary Ordinary in Prose Poems
For Maxine Chernoff, language is both the promise and the breaking of the promise.
Art
Looking at Monet as the Planet Burns
At Giverny, by rendering landscapes of his own creation, Monet was not so much replicating nature as, in a sense, collaborating with it.
Art
Two Aboriginal Artists Pay Tribute to Their Homeland
A tree is never just a tree, a water source is never just a water source in the works of Barbara Moore and Sharon Adamson. “They’re all signs of ancestral action.”
Art
Picasso, Paper Monster
Paper, in short, was at one with Picasso's nature.
Art
A Contemporary Master of the Brushstroke
David Reed has figured out how to bring illusionism back into an abstract painting while remaining committed to paint-as-paint.