Books
A Writer’s Act of Divination
Selah Saterstrom proposes that the act of divinatory reading and the reading of a text are interchangeable, that a text is far more than a sequence of sentences.
Review
Music
An Electropop Take on Romantic Rapture
The grand arc of Sophie’s bewilderingly titled Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides swings through a billion little moments of rapture, with sounds beautiful, ugly, extreme.
Art
The Ghosts of Our Future Climate at Storm King
A group exhibition featuring almost 20 artists suggests directions for visual art in response to climate change.
Art
A Pioneering Thai Artist in America
Tang Chang's first solo US retrospective veers away from the criteria of progress and linearity according to which Western art is typically evaluated.
Art
A Pilgrimage to Art Brut’s Austrian Heart
An Austrian museum presents a wide-ranging survey of works made over almost 50 years by residents and other autodidacts associated with the Art Brut Center Gugging, near Vienna.
Art
The Science and Pleasures of How We See
In looking through 3D vision, we are able to turn flat surfaces into the way we daily see the world, and there is a kind a miracle, so it appears, in that very act.
Art
The Racial Politics of Boxing
The history of the United States cannot truly be told without acknowledging the impact of boxing on society.
Art
Mel Chin and Art that Is Proof of Life
Mel Chin's work, while visually fascinating and intellectually invigorating, when it moves beyond representation becomes significant, material, socio-political action.
Art
An Artist’s Violent and Beautiful Reflections of South Korea
Lee Bul illuminates the relationship between South Korea’s artists and their country over the tumultuous second half of the 20th century.
Art
SVA Students Reinterpret Intersectionality Through a Queer Lens
Maybe the meaning of intersectionality has changed. Maybe it's less about projecting an image of oneself and more about empathizing with others' internal complexities and contradictions.
Art
When Our Heroes Die and We Publicly Mourn Them
The photographs of both Paul Fusco and Rein Jelle Terpstra explore what happens when a public figure, upon whom has been thrust the hope of millions, disappears.
Art
A Painter Reflects on When Black Men Get to Rest
After undergoing brain surgery, Mario Moore produced a series of works about Black men resting and recovering — a realm he describes as a "fantasy land."