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.
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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.
Art
Mark Bradford Reimagines “Pickett’s Charge” to Include New Voices
Within Bradford's "Pickett's Charge," there is a rawness, a free construction that flies in the face of popular culture's insistence on a simplified historical and visual record.
Books
The Calling Cards of the 1970s and '80s British CB Radio Subculture
Eyeball Cards: The Art of British CB Radio Culture compiles hundreds of calling cards from the renegade 1970s and '80s Citizens Band (CB) radio scene.
Books
Ukraine's Monumental Soviet-Era Mosaics
Often unremarked or dismissed as state propaganda, Ukraine's Soviet-era mosaics are also artworks in themselves that speak to a complex history.
Books
An 18th-Century Compendium of Magic Revels in the Dark Arts
Touch Me Not from Fulgur Limited is the first color facsimile of a vividly bizarre 18th-century manuscript of the black magical arts.
Art
When Encounters Between East and West Go Smoothly
At the Japan Society, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Gates of Paradise, legacies of inter-cultural encounter are seen through a lens of global understanding.
Books
A Photographer Documents How Spirit Mediums in Myanmar and Thailand Blur Gender
Transcendents: Spirit Mediums in Thailand and Burma features photographs by Mariette Pathy Allen of the gender variance of participants in spirit cults.
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How the Animal Menagerie of Versailles Changed 17th-Century Art
1668: The Year of the Animal in France by Peter Sahlins delves into the radical influence of Louis XIV's menagerie at Versailles on the art of animals.
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Knitting Together the Beginnings of a Queer, Feminine Future
Studio Views: Craft in the Expanded Field reimagines the Museum of Arts and Design's third floor gallery space as an artist’s studio for two, both demystifying the process of fiber art making and allowing the artists to dialogue with a curious public.
Books
The Resonant Resistances of Political Poetry
Oakland-based publisher Commune Editions’ advocacy of community-based ethics animates volumes of poetry by Nanni Balestrini and Heriberto Yépez.