Music
On the Margins of Country Music
We’re witnessing a transitional moment for the country music genre that opens up space for weirdness and experimentation.
Review
Art
Paintings of Bodily Residue and Extra-Long Tongues
In Emily Furr’s paintings, objects penetrate the openings of other objects, but the body is nowhere to be seen.
Art
The Power of Painterly Innocence
Billy White’s artistic kinships seem to be more personal and experiential than cultural or racial.
Art
Refuse Transformed: Reuse as Social Repair
These assemblages showcase art’s power and, poignantly its limitations, to effect material transformations.
Art
Pure Paint, Impurely Deployed
Jason Stopa is a historically savvy painter whose approach to Pop Formalism can cut either way, toward reflexive irony or an expanded employment of the language of paint.
Performance
Artists Reflect on Water Scarcity in a Gentrifying Montana Town
In a rapidly growing western town, indigenous and non-indigenous artists collaborate with ranchers, ecologists, and activists in a poignant performance series about the local water scarcity problem.
Art
A Photographer's Vision of Bollywood and Hollywood Royalty
Being photographed by Jitendra Arya was seen as a ticket to fame.
Art
Fifty Years of AfriCOBRA's Radical, “Cool-Ade Colored” Art
AfriCOBRA, the Chicago-based art collective that helped develop the Black arts movement, celebrates its 50th anniversary in a new retrospective.
Art
The Criminally Overlooked Talent of Baroque Painter Michaelina Wautier
Michaelina Wautier's artistic talent was on par with that of her famous male contemporaries, like Rubens and Van Dyck. The first-ever retrospective of her work offers long overdue recognition.
Art
Sound Artist Ryoji Ikeda Visualizes Big Data
Ryoji Ikeda's overwhelming sound and video installations, exhibited at Centre Pompidou, evoke the totalitarian grip that Big Data holds on our daily lives.
Art
The True Collaborative Power Between Artist and Curator
You can approach each work in this show as individual, but the really charming and kinetic action happens in the interactions.
Art
An Outline of Over 200 Years of Silhouettes
The oldest object on view documents an ugly reality, showing on brown paperboard one of the earliest known images of a slave in the US, accompanied by a bill of sale.