Art
The Land Art at Desert X Confronts Borders and Politics on Indigenous Territory
The second edition of Desert X is a manifesto for poetical activism, tangled between nature and urban development.
Review
Books
Marina Warner Lays the Groundwork for Dynamic Art Writing
A new anthology of erudite essays shines a light on how to address the artist's biography.
Books
A Look at the Auteur of Animation, Hayao Miyazaki
Susan Napier's Miyazaki World eloquently defines Hayao Miyazaki as an auteur who creates immersive animated realms.
Books
A Poet's Symbolic Resignation
With The Resignation, poet Lonely Christopher shows his interest in "speeches that mean next to nothing."
Books
Ann Lauterbach Expands the Possibilities of Poetry
In an age dominated by literalism and an insistence on facts, what can the imagination summon into words?
Art
Brenda Goodman Moves into New Territory
Between 1994 and 2011, Goodman painted a series of self-portraits that constitute one of the most powerful and disturbing achievements of portraiture in modern art.
Art
Ancient Tools for a New Way of Seeing
This is what very good artists are supposed to do: use the past to bring about the present — in David Rabinowitch’s case, a visionary one.
Art
Lo-Fi Art for the Internet Age
Noh Sangho asks if the terms of eye-catching, short-lived virality were not so different in the 16th century as they are now.
Art
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Explores Psychological Depths
The painter's introspective subjects can make the viewer feel uncomfortably voyeuristic.
Art
Jim Osman’s Off-Kilter Arcadia
Osman's suite of new sculptures might look like buildings, or the things within buildings: furniture, toyish tools, and strange-ified objects of interior design.
Film
A Few Gems Among This Year’s Bizarre Oscar-Nominated Shorts
The 15 films nominated for the Academy Awards tackle racism, aging, parenthood, and more.
Art
Humorous and Disturbing Self-Portraits Packaged for an Instagram Audience
Obscuring his identity with motorized toys and raw meat, David Henry Brown "Nobody" Jr. seeks to liberate himself from the ways capitalism tends to dehumanize us.