Art
The Brutal Exploitation Behind the Belgian Art Nouveau
Sammy Baloji demonstrates how the architectural movement — and implicitly, Belgium as a country and culture — was underpinned by the colonization of the Congo.
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A Charming Cat-alog of John Craxton’s Kittens
John Craxton would see the animal mid-action and think, that’s another picture. On the occasion of National Cat Day, here are some of his most fantastic felines.
Art
Can Asian-American Identity Still Be a Political Home?
Legacies examines the varied strategies Asian-American artists used to navigate New York from 1969 through 2001, offering lessons for the future.
Art
The Cross-Pollination Between Prints and Textiles Yields Abundance
An exhibition at the New York Public Library shows that these modes share deep roots.
Art
The Motley Crew of Haegue Yang’s Hybrid Sculptures
The artist explores sonic reverberations, the relationship between the sacred and material realms, and the ways in which artworks might be activated by a participant.
Books
How to Navigate Through the Wilderness of the Internet in 2024
Identifying “dark forests” as digital havens from mainstream gamification, a new book plumbs the depths of the Internet and what it means for creatives today.
Art
David Bayus’s AI-Infused Gender Burlesque
The artist unspools a playful and dark-edged narrative that refracts art deco and noir melodrama through the late-modern styles of video games, manga, and fantasy.
Books
The Anti-Apartheid Photographer Who Was Stranded in America
Ernest Cole’s life story is an anti-colonialism epic, Cold War thriller, and a tragedy.
Books
An Overdue History of Japanese Women Photographers
The expansive catalog offers an essential compilation of essays, interviews, and profiles of Japanese women photographers from the 1950s through the present day.
Art
Hard Graft Reminds Us That Health Is Political
A stellar curation of stirring contemporary works and archival material expose the links between labor and health. The show calls, in turn, for a bit of visitor effort.
Books
Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy Comic Strip Finally Finds a Home
The subject of festivals and even a Warhol painting, the beloved comic is available at last in a published compilation for cartoonists to study and absorb.
Art
The Mind-Body Split in Kibong Rhee’s Paintings
Rhee's paintings change from pictorial presentations of a lush, dreamy world to a tangled web of different viscosities when we approach the surface.