Art
Tribeca Art Spaces Yearn for Love in the Time of Cholera
We're not the first, or last, to live in dark times, but artists are continuously finding new ways to cope with these everyday realities through art.
Review
Performance
An Interactive Play in Which the Audience Members Are Dinner Party Guests
When making conversation with actors during the show, we were confronted with an awareness of how performative such chit-chat is in real life.
Art
27 Artists Grapple with the Fractious Politics of Thailand
While the majority of the artists of Patani Semasa deal with the contentious politics of the region, they don’t propose solutions, or lean on simplistic answers.
Art
Trenton Doyle Hancock Designs Dolls for a New Era
An exhibition of historic and futuristic dolls that points to the power of creating new mythologies.
Art
The Eerie Stillness of Domenico Gnoli’s Close-ups of Everyday Details
The paintings, of which Gnoli made only 40, have extreme close points of view that create a portentous, clinical intimacy.
Books
Mirtha Dermisache's Writing Is a Rorschach test
Dermisache's drawings posture as communication yet undercut it through illegibility.
Art
Daniel Zeller's Cyberpunk Abstractions
Zeller is a cartographer of alien surfaces — recording something between skin and machine, reptile and vegetation, thermal imaging and imaginary highways.
Art
Susanna Coffey Studies the Nature of Portraiture
For years, Coffey has produced modestly scaled self-portraits with not a brushstroke of flattery.
Art
Van Gogh’s Japanese Idyll
Through willful imitation of Japanese art, van Gogh became the van Gogh we know, perhaps the world’s most famous painter.
Music
Rap Futurism: Cupcakke, Ski Mask and the Slump God, Playboi Carti, and Kanye West
The future of rap lies in silliness, absurdism, functionalism, and sonic delight.
Art
Jasper Johns' Life and Work: A Conversation Between John Yau, Martha Wilson, and William Villalongo
Who gets remembered and how?
Film
Overcoming Isolation Through Mukbang, the Subculture Where People Watch You Eat
Pam Nasr's short film Clams Casino centers on a young woman struggling to reconnect with her mother but successfully connecting to thousands of viewers and eaters online.