Books
For the Love of Leonardo
A slew of new books rethinks the Renaissance in general and Leonardo da Vinci in particular.
Review
Film
An Artist’s Film Not Like the Others
We watch Ellen Berkenblit drawing. She is left-handed and uses charcoal. She rubs lines out and never looks at the camera.
Art
Terry Winters Draws the Shape of Space
In his best drawings, everything is keyed to the way that Winters attains difference while doing the same thing over and over.
Art
When the Spirits Guide the Hand
An intriguing exhibition focuses on art whose makers were compelled to create it by forces greater — and far beyond — themselves.
Art
The Art that Flourished Under Mussolini
While unquestionably autocratic, Mussolini did not oppose the proliferation of unofficial artistic styles.
Art
Looking at Renoirs, Moving and Still
Not only did Pierre-Auguste and Jean Renoir share DNA, but also a muse, who was the father’s last model and the son’s future wife.
Art
Three Decades Distilled into 180 Portraits
Liu Wei returns to New York to show an idiosyncratic body of work that marks a radical departure from the paintings that made him a star
Art
Photographers Connect Africa’s Diaspora Back to the Continent
A group of contemporary artists re-imagine the African Diaspora through references to the landscape, masks, clothes, and adornments.
Art
An Abandoned Detroit Church Poetically and Subtly Divided in Two
Manal Shoukair's installation at Shylo Arts, a transparent scrim stretched across the entire space at about chest level, is an understated but powerful intervention.
Art
Gorogoa Is a Hand-Illustrated Puzzle That Reflects the Transformative Power of Imagination
Jason Roberts spent seven years hand-illustrating Gorogoa, a layered puzzle game that unfolds like a fragmented storybook.
Books
As Climate Change Dries a Southwest Reservoir, a Drowned Canyon Returns
For Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado photographers Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe with author Rebecca Solnit explored the return of a flooded Southwest landscape.
Art
Mel Chin’s Tongue-in-Cheek Encyclopedia of the World
He stares down the evils that have driven history, intervenes in public spaces, and collaborates with science — all in service to strengthening community