Film
The Story of an Unrealized Domed City for Minnesota
The Experimental City, directed by Chad Freidrichs, revisits the late 1960s plan for a city in Minnesota that would solve urban problems through futuristic technology and design.
Review
Art
The Pregnant Silence Pervading Paintings of Libraries
Zsofia Schweger's paintings in Cataloguing Time remind me of a poem by Wallace Stevens.
Art
The Pregnant Silence Pervading Paintings of Libraries
Zsofia Schweger's paintings in Cataloguing Time remind me of a poem by Wallace Stevens.
Music
Anatomy of a Christmas Song
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and kitsch is in the air.
Art
Two Artists Document the Rise and Fall of Pittsburgh's Steel Industry
Sandra Gould Ford and LaToya Ruby Frazier reveal a side of the city that is rarely seen by outside observers or even many of its contemporary, white-collar locals.
Art
12 Revelatory Exhibitions from 2017
Each of these exhibitions showed me something I had not seen before.
Art
Skipping Across the Decades with Mark Dagley
Dagley's new exhibition at Spencer Brownstone is a case study in sustaining a varied, disciplined investigation of painting as structure and object-making.
Books
An Illuminating History of Modern Graphic Design
The Brooklyn-based publishing company, Standards Manual, has produced a series of meticulously crafted facsimiles of design manuals, from the New York City Subway to NASA.
Art
The Pursuit of Art, 2017
A year of truth-telling and electric painting.
Art
Walid Raad's Playful and Dead-Serious Experiments with History
Raad's latest exhibition in Beirut explores history, archives, and reality with his signature inscrutability and dry humor.
Art
Circling Back to Kenneth Noland
Noland's current exhibition at Yares Art, brings together prime examples of one of the artist’s signature motifs: concentric rings of color centrally and symmetrically ordered in square canvases.
Art
Birding with Max Ernst
In the Museum of Modern Art's current Ernst retrospective, the artist's avian alter ego, Loplop, reveals a realer reality.