Art
Plumbing the Depths of Rodin's Classical Influences
Rodin's work is currently on display at the British Museum, with a number of photographs and sculptures included in the exhibition, the main draw being the Parthenon marbles.
Review
Film
Stream Mr. Freedom, the Perfect Anti-Fourth of July Movie
Mr. Freedom, written and directed by William Klein in 1969, viciously lampoons both superheroes and the United States.
Art
Artists and Scientists Concoct Immersive Projects at the Wellcome
The Wellcome Collection in London introduces four mixed-media installations in an immersive, collaborative show between artists and scientists.
Art
Making the Transformative Power of Words Concrete
This exhibition at the Bronx Museum highlights the reciprocal relationship between historical texts and the art they have inspired. This is a conversation that should never end.
Art
God Loves Versace in Met Museum’s Fashion and Catholicism Exhibit
The museum yokes the spectacle of fashion and the spectacle of Catholicism in its largest costume exhibition to date.
Art
Updating Ruskin’s Sublime Landscape in the Age of the Anthropocene
New York University's Grey Gallery takes on the concept of the sublime in contemporary landscape art.
Art
Ominous and Uplifting Paintings that Dance with Death
Emilia Olsen uses the Death and the Maiden allegory as a provocative metaphor for artistic sustenance and renewal.
Performance
Nick Cave Lets Go in a Performance that Is Part Confession, Part Celebration
In “The Let Go” at the Park Avenue Armory, the artist explores jubilation washed with spectacle and an undertow of anguish.
Art
Immigrant Stories Dock at Governors Island in Two Exhibitions
Artists in both exhibitions were inspired by the harbor itself and how it has been a witness to immigrant narratives.
Art
How Medieval Artists Used Monsters as Propaganda
In Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders, the Morgan Library & Museum in New York is exhibiting 70 examples of the monstrous in the Middle Ages.
Books
Poet as a Super Thinker
Maged Zaher's poems the emphasize the absurdity of love in the time of late-capitalism.
Books
Poet as a Super Thinker
Maged Zaher's poems the emphasize the absurdity of love in the time of late-capitalism.