Books
A Series of Spells Conjured in Graphite and Watercolor
A Book of Staves by artist Jesse Bransford features painted charms inspired by Icelandic magic.
Review
Art
Queens International Speaks Volumes About a Borough that Welcomes the World
The Queens Museum’s biennial exhibition offers an assortment of work that considers the politics of art-making in the borough today
Film
How Merce Cunningham Worked with Filmmakers to Make the Camera Dance
A series of films installed on the High Line make the camera an intimate actor in experimental dance.
Film
I Am Cuba, Restored and Reimagined
Newly restored and screening tonight, I Am Cuba raises questions about the ways film negotiates authenticity.
Art
An AR Installation Submerges the Whitney Museum in a Coral Reef of Plastic Debris
Tamiko Thiel’s “Unexpected Growth” is an augmented reality installation on the future of oceans and climate change.
Art
A Museum Gains Prominence Through Collecting Native American Artists’ Work
A gem of a museum in Ohio known for European masterpieces, gains contemporary relevance.
Art
Curators Experiment with Scale, Bringing New Life to the Jim Crow-era Photography of Hugh Mangum
A concise show of photographs printed for impact, at an enlarged scale and in color, magnifies questions about race in the United States.
Art
The Ghosts of Cotton in the American Landscape
John E. Dowell takes as his subject one of the most influential plants in US history.
Art
Extraordinary California Women Artists Working from 1860 to 1960
An exhibition brings together work by artists whose contributions to art movements and regional histories might have been obscured, forgotten, or overshadowed by those of their male colleagues.
Art
The New Museum Hits “Save” on Net Art
The Art Happens Here favors a less technical definition of net art, as material based in or for internet cultures.
Art
Fragments of the Universe Captured in Dizzying Images
The concept that images represent a “shedding” pervades Stuart’s current exhibition, in which the artworks pit images against traces.
Art
The History of Jewelry, from Ancient Mesopotamia to Today
While the pieces on display are beautiful, The Met's Jewelry: The Body Transformed exhibition is lacking in curatorial vision, dividing the objects into blandly-broad thematic sections.