Books
Charles Bernstein's Poems Rethink Language
Bernstein often transforms accessible language into a visual puzzle.
Review
Art
A Painter Trades Sex for Romance
Romantic love for Lisa Yuskavage is something we can deride as unrealistic, yet its sweet, naïve simplicity reminds us of a youthful ideal.
Art
Richard Prince’s Dorky White Anger
These are works you do not scrutinize or reflect upon because there is really not much to examine, much less think about.
Art
An Artist’s Soul, Out at Sea
Zarina’s collages evoke the intense yearnings of a migrant in search of a home.
Art
The Emergence of a Brash Young Painter
A large exhibition like Devan Shimoyama’s at the Andy Warhol Museum inevitably puts great pressure on a very young artist. It also offers a marvelous challenge for reviewers.
Art
The Anti-Caravaggio
Pontormo’s figures, though illuminated in godliness, are invariably human in their proportions and hushed in their emotions.
Art
In Miami, a Fair for Artists from Africa and the African Diaspora Shines Again
The Prizm Art Fair, which consistently shows great work, has finally been given the room to breathe.
Art
The Athens Biennale Negligently Satirizes the Aesthetics of the Alt-Right
In Athens, a biennale offers a critique of humanism, Marxism, capitalism, identity politics, and everything in between, but fails to explore pragmatic solutions.
Film
In Vox Lux, Pop Music Is a Shield Against Contemporary Horrors
Natalie Portman stars as a pop star who survived a school shooting in director Brady Corbet's new film about the desensitizing powers of idol worship.
Art
My Memories of Watching Roz Chast Draw in Junior High
The future New Yorker cartoonist sat in front of me in class at Brooklyn’s Ditmas Junior High School. She was the class brain, and loved to draw.
Art
How Fascism Complicates the Beauty of Italian Postwar Photography
NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960 presents an intricate survey on how photography changed (or didn't) during Italy's transition from Fascism to democratic capitalism.
Art
Photographs of Beirut’s Abandoned Houses, Decades After the Civil War
For seven years, Gregory Buchakjian has surveyed and photographed Beirut’s deserted buildings, memorializing a vanishing urban landscape and the lives that intersected with it.