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.
Review
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.
Art
A 19th-Century Guide to Euclid's Geometry Reborn as an Interactive Site
Designer Nicholas Rougeux created an interactive version of one of the first multicolor books, which turned Euclid’s pivotal geometric ideas into visual diagrams.
Art
How Women Have Been Constricted by Design
As Annica Cuppetelli's research has revealed, contemporary women are still routinely subjected to garment-based forms of discrimination.
Art
Descending into Lee Bontecou’s Apocalyptic Voids
Like her massive wall reliefs, Bontecou's works on paper evoke the world as fragile, teetering on the brink of total calamity.
Art
Women Artists Shatter the Stereotype of the “Valley Girl”
Valley Girl Redefined aims to challenge that very limited depiction of women from “the Valley.”
Books
Paul J. Sachs Trained a Generation of American Museum Leaders, Including Alfred Barr
Between 1921 and 1948, Sachs taught a year-long graduate class at the Fogg Art Museum “that decisively shaped the development, character, and ethos of the American art museum.”