Art
Keeping it Odd — and Real — at the 2020 Outsider Art Fair
With a broader, more international scope, this year’s gathering will offer fresh discoveries at every turn.
Review
Art
What the New York Art World Is Missing
What is striking about Jiha Moon’s work is that it does not quite fit into the New York art world’s current concerns with racial and ethnic identity because, as far as I can tell, this art world has never addressed issues of Asian cultural dislocation.
Books
A Musician’s Fictional, Indistinct Futures Take the Shape of a Novel
Leaning into the imaginative possibility of text, Félicia Atkinson’s A Forest Petrifies: Diamond Feedback grafts a poetic, discursive dialogue that fills in the detailed sonic worlds of her recent album.
Art
How Does a Black Man Fit Into an Edward Hopper Painting?
The Edward Hopper and the American Hotel exhibition invites some visitors to spend the night in a room inspired by one of Hopper's paintings, and our critic ponders who it's really designed for.
Art
Artists Help Us to Gain a Deeper Understanding of Death and Healing
From Albrecht Dürer to LaToya Ruby Frazier, artists have for centuries depicted and reflected on health and illness.
Books
A Poignant Travelogue From a Mother to Her Daughter
The most important thing Ursula Schulz-Dornburg carried with her as she wandered the streets of Yerevan, Armenia, in search of new wonders, is not this camera or that, but the thought of her daughter.
Art
60 Years of Posters Celebrating the Cuban Revolution
Despite the contradictions of the Cuban Revolution, the posters on view at the Museum of Decorative Arts suggest that, on paper, artists had freedom to express their optimism and support.
Art
Two Artists Stare Into the Face of Death
In Misbehaving Bodies, Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery’s works consider the protracted degeneration of the body.
Art
Gauging the Possibilities of Impermanence at the New MoMA
MoMA’s recent expansion embodies the tension between the ways in which cultural spaces can offer visitors comfortable narratives and on the other, how they can suggest the potential for radical inclusiveness by iteration, reinvention, and reinstallation.
Film
The Jewish Israeli Lawyer Who's Made a Career of Defending Palestinians
The documentary Advocate, profiling controversial lawyer Lea Tsemel, has become an unlikely Oscar contender.
Art
Vera Neumann, the Artist Who Transformed Her Paintings Into Wearable Objects
“I’m an artist who prefers to paint things for people rather than for walls,” Neumann explained in 1971.
Art
The Urgent and Necessary Images of Shahidul Alam
At the Rubin Museum of Art, Truth to Power spotlights Alam's tireless documentation of over 40 years of struggle and change in his native Bangladesh.