Art
Upending Clichés About Nationhood, Asylum, and Living Through War
An exhibition in Chiang Mai, Thailand contends with the pain and despair of life washed in economic disparity, genocide, war, and the complexities of nationhood.
Review
Books
Gripping Nocturnal Views of Detroit Devoid of Life
Dave Jordano's new book collects more than 100 of his startling, brilliant nighttime photographs of his hometown.
Performance
A Composer's Obsession Becomes an Underwater Wonder
Watching puppeteer Basil Twist’s Symphonie Fantastique is like experiencing an extreme episode of synesthesia.
Art
A Sculptor Cuts an Uncanny Figure
Everything in the work of sculptor Sarah Peters is an act of reimagining and melding together disparate sources into something that becomes curiouser and curiouser.
Art
Terry Winters's Inspired Rejections
Winters’s painting technique argues against gestural abstraction’s sweeping structures and minimalism’s solid-color surfaces.
Art
John Moore's Fabricated Realities
"In paintings that resonate with post-industrial America, Moore rearranges the world."
Art
An Installation Like an Enchanted Forest
While galleries often promise "an immersive, multimedia exhibition," this exhibition is constructed with a sense of wonder, curiosity that works.
Performance
At the Brooklyn Museum, Actors Play at Faking Democracy
The actor’s trade is always a deception, creating the appearance of authenticity.
Art
The Illusion of Infinity and Our Quest for Perfection
Mirrored pyramids reveal that the perfect — or the idea of the infinite — exists only in the imagination.
Books
Disquieting Landscapes from Surveillance Cameras Around the World
After pulling landscape footage from CCTV feeds around the world, Marcus DeSieno employed a 19th-century photography technique to create his eerie images.
Art
The Bold Yet Too-Brief Art Career of T.C. Cannon
Cannon, who died when he was just 31, made enduring and vibrant works melding Native American and more mainstream artistic and pop culture imagery.
Art
How Jef Geys's Conceptual Enigmas Speak to Life
One gets the impression that Geys, as much as any artist ever managed to, achieved an integration of art and life.