Books
Learning To Be a Painter at 64
After retiring as a professor of American history from Princeton University, Nell Painter embarked on a new chapter of her life: to become a practicing artist.
Review
Film
Bruce LaBruce Misfires with an Awkward Marriage of Punk and Camp
The provocative auteur's latest, The Misandrists, attempts a tongue-in-cheek critique of radical feminism.
Art
Tilling the Scars of Turtle Island and Its History
Scorched Earth, a group exhibition at Current Projects in Miami, considers the stories contained within the soil.
Art
A Storm of Art Brut from the Balkans
An exhibition of ecstatic, mystical work at the Halle Saint Pierre in Paris questions what is visionary, anti-pop, art brut, or art brutish.
Art
Art Responding to Birds and Their Habitats at One of New York's Great Natural Escapes
Avifauna at Wave Hill in the Bronx features art responding to the lives of birds in New York City and beyond.
Art
NYC’s Faltering Subway System as an Arcade Game Where Players Race Against Privatization
MTA Country, a new satiric game from Everyday Arcade lets players navigate the crumbling transit system.
Art
Take On the Challenge of Abstract Painting Puzzles in this Mobile Game
Art Club Challenge by Jarryd Huntley aims to make art more approachable through its Mondrian-inspired painting puzzles.
Books
An Early 19th-Century Flower Painter's Guide to Identifying Colors of the Natural World
Published in 1814 by a Scottish flower painter, 'Werner's Nomenclature of Colours' was one of the world's first systemic taxonomy of colors.
Art
Natalie Frank's Fairy Tale for Adults Only
Her drawings of animals and people in costume give insight into the darker side of human lust and longing.
Art
Nathaniel Robinson Questions America’s Feckless Policies
Robinson picks subjects for his sculptures that are disposable and forlorn, belonging to no one.
Music
Two Sprawling and Disorderly Trap Albums
Migos and Rae Sremmurd streamline voguish rap conventions into digestible product.
Art
Outsider Art Comes to the Metropolitan Museum
The entry of works from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation into the Met’s collection has prompted the museum to rethink the way it presents 20th-century art history.