Books
How W.E.B. Du Bois Meticulously Visualized 20th-Century Black America
The Pan-African scholar's data visualizations about Black American progress after Emancipation have been compiled, for the first time, as a book.
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Books
Miyó Vestrini, a Fierce Venezuelan Poet Who Wrote About Death
Grenade in Mouth is the first full-length collection of Vestrini’s texts available in English.
Art
An AI Artist's Twitter Feed Is an Art Gallery
The images and videos Mario Klingemann posted under the hashtag #BigGAN can only be appreciated by treating his Twitter feed as a digital exhibition.
Art
Women’s Tense Relationship with Fabric Artfully Unfolds
Poorly Watched Girls is Suzanne Bocanegra's largest exhibition to date and the culmination of her collaboration with the Fabric Workshop and Museum.
Books
Vasily Kandinsky's Poems
Evocations of color dominate these ruminative prose poems.
Books
Jack Kerouac's Beat Paintings
A new catalogue of Kerouac's paintings is crucial in studying the overlap in his investment in writing and painting.
Art
Altoon Sultan’s Enigmatic Views
Sultan is both the artist and the artisan — a view that goes against the grain characterizing art as a purely conceptual activity, a form of entrepreneurship.
Art
Elisabeth Frink’s Human Bestiary
Few British sculptors stood at a remove from art world trends as consistently as Frink.
Art
Kehinde Wiley's Painted Elegies for Ferguson
The subjects of Wiley's Ferguson paintings launch a vibrant dialogue between the canvas of the painting and the canvas of the body.
Art
Rocks, Waste, and Water
Ecological anxiety in shows by Davino Semo, Katherine Wolkoff, and Aaron Morse.
Art
Egon Schiele’s Impudent Offspring
Tracing Egon Schiele’s lineage, forward and backward in time.
Art
Drawing Meaning Out of Art with Conversation
The exhibition owes its title to a famous essay by philosopher Édouard Glissant, and it asks some big questions about how artists convey the substance of their art.