Art
A retrospective at Centre Pompidou features the eclectic early works of the artist, poet, political activist and scholar who spearheaded the European wing of the "happening" movement.
Art
Have you ever accidentally walked into an occupied bathroom? That incredulous shock of embarrassment is precisely what the Swiss Institute's new exhibition conjures.
Art
Jova Lynne explores the notions of Paradise and tourism in her performance art piece Paradise Travel Company.
Art
The Pencil Museum is an art installation by Jackie Mock that celebrates New York City's pencil history and its connection to Staten Island.
Books
David Sedaris's Calypso is an intimate portrait of a writer who has, for so long, shared his entire life with a captivated audience.
Art
It is not every day that you can go to Chelsea and see more than 100 paintings by 46 artists within the space of a few blocks.
Art
By providing more information than viewers might process, the show's dense, small-font text highlights an aesthetic challenge that confronts social practice art.
Art
Wilson’s explicit reference to Africa expands the global network through which both cultural influences and African bodies were transmitted.
Art
The drawings of Klimt and Schiele, in contrast to those of Picasso, are graphic evidence of an artist grappling with what is directly in front of him.
Books
It’s not that Women of Resistance isn’t an excellent cross-section of work by and about the intersectional experience of contemporary womanhood; it’s that the intersectional experience of contemporary womanhood is a slog through all the crap that’s been piled on top of us.
Art
The artist's candid event photographs demand the spotlight in his current exhibition in New York.
Film
There are moments of friendship and warmth in Wang Bing's documentary Bitter Money but the primary sense a viewer gets is that being on the bottom rung of capitalism in China consists mainly of boredom.