Art
Feeling Down? Here Are the Best Bob Ross Pep Talks
All 403 episodes of The Joy of Painting are on YouTube. Here are five of the most inspiring installments.
Review
Books
Plastic Capitalism Traces the Phenomenon of "Waste Art"
Plastics have drastically altered our society and environment. A new book by Amanda Boetzkes looks at the material as an artistic medium and eco-cultural signifier.
Art
Walid Raad Uses Fact and Fiction to Tell a Powerful History of Beirut
Raad exposes the way in which our accepted notions of historicizing events are simultaneously fact and fiction.
Books
Constructing the Language We Breathe
For half a century, Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop have been (despite some serious competition) the most reliable conduit for poetry traveling from French and German into English.
Art
Discovering an Unknown Sculptor, 30 Years After His Death
During the past decade, many neglected artists have been reconsidered; this cannot be said for Leo Amino.
Art
Excavating the Radical Roots of Abstract Painting
With each new exhibition, it becomes more apparent that Don Voisine is adding his own earned options to the legacy of geometric abstraction.
Art
Purvis Young's Unbounded Histories
Young’s works tell the stories of individuals and communities, of dreams and disillusionment, and of the abysses between life, death, and eternity.
Art
Mona Lisa, Revisited: History’s Symbol and Muse
With his Mona Lisa Earth Series, Naoto Nakagawa puts Leonardo’s mysteriously grinning subject through a ringer of styles and technical treatments in ambitious, complex images.
Art
Coping with Climate Change
The gallery NURTUREart has been transformed into a government bureau to help citizens negotiate climate change’s psychological and logistical challenges.
Art
Encountering “The Fulbright Triptych”
A rare sighting of an elusive painting.
Film
A Documentary on the Birth and Growth of the Satanic Temple
Hail Satan? marks the first time that director Penny Lane filmed contemporary events as they developed, though her deftness with archival material is crucial to the story's appeal.
Art
A Show of Saccharine, Seductive Greeting Card Paintings Sponsored by Deep Conservatism
William-Adolphe Bouguereau's Belle Epoque paintings suggest that anything can be bought as a balm against the harsh conditions and human expense required to build America.