Art
The Dazzling and Dooming Art of Cecilia Vicuña
The Chilean-born artist commemorates calamity while transfiguring its ruin into another tomorrow.
Review
Art
Contemporary Hopi Artists’ Mural Travels From Flagstaff to Dallas, Animating Indigenous Art
A small but powerful exhibit, shows intense commitment to the power of individual artists, within the broader context of communal history.
Art
Looking Back at Bodys Isek Kingelez's Future Cities
By integrating the real with the imagined in his maquette of cities, Kingelez works toward a topography of unity, a world without boundaries.
Art
Los Angeles Resists Easy Definition in Aperture Magazine’s New Issue
The issue is as much about prevailing ideas around Los Angeles as it is about the people who lived, and continue to live, there.
Art
Artists Remix and Riff Off Oberlin’s Architecture
As part of FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, artists have transformed the Oberlin College campus with sculptural reflections on architecture.
Art
Alison Bechdel’s Mission to Make Lesbian Culture Visible Through Comics
A new retrospective charts the graphic novelist's journey from her dysfunctional family's funeral home to being appointed Vermont's Cartoonist Laureate in 2017.
Art
Exquisite Scrolls that Unravel Imaginary Journeys
Anne Gilman's super-sized scrolls feel like hand-drawn maps, perhaps charting a journey through a metaphysical region.
Books
Documenting the Journeys of Syrian Refugees in Comics
Escaping Wars and Waves culls Olivier Kugler's contributions to Harper's, Le Monde diplomatique, The New Yorker, and more.
Art
Ellen Berkenblit’s Outcasts, Animals, and Body Parts
Berkenblit’s mastery is the visual equivalent of someone who can write fluently in three different languages.
Art
The Making of an American Original
In the age of 40-character electronic announcements and Instagram, Kathy Butterly has slowed looking down to a snail’s pace.
Art
Paintings Glimpsed from a Taxi
Stephen Westfall seems to be the geometric painter who cannot do variations on a motif, which gives his work an interesting twist.
Music
Mitski's Eclectic Emo
The New York folk-punk singer writes short, scary songs with holes and twists and choruses that never repeat, and unexpected endings.