Books
Andy Warhol's Whimsical Drawings Before He Went Pop
A new book collects Warhol's early hand-drawn illustrations and accompanying texts, reproduced faithfully and filled with wit and whimsy.
Review
Books
How Tuberculosis Symptoms Became Ideals of Beauty in the 19th Century
In Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease, Carolyn A. Day investigates how the fatal symptoms of tuberculosis became entwined with feminine ideals in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Film
Antonioni's Rarely Seen Documentary on China During the Cultural Revolution
Antonioni's experimental travelogue of the early days of the Cultural Revolution is a complex, sometimes confusing, and priceless document of a transformative moment in Chinese history.
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.
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.