Art
Irving Petlin’s Armada of Discontent
Whatever your life story, it is part of a larger history – this is what Petlin recognizes and is perhaps why he suppresses the personal or anecdotal.
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Art
Virginia Wagner’s Landscapes of Exquisite Dread
Wagner would agree with Samuel Beckett, that “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.”
Art
Ruination and Rumination on the Anthropocene
Patty Chang's ecological art struggles with its own fatalism.
Art
Photos from the Dashboard
Robert Marshall's dreamlike images are fleeting, fragmentary glimpses out the window of a moving car or train.
Art
The High Life of Vermeer and his Contemporaries
Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting reinserts Vermeer into the tradition in which he worked, both demystifying his paintings and lending force to his particular take on the genre.
Art
Virtually Explore Centuries of Human Settlement Along the South Carolina Coast
Between the Waters is an interactive documentary on the centuries of human settlement in South Carolina's Hobcaw Barony.
Books
Rebellious, But Still Sexist: Revisiting a Giant of Underground Comix
A new book on Spain Rodriguez revisits his innovative repertoire, but ignores the extent to which some of his comix revel in the sexism regularly broadcast in the era’s male-authored strips.
Books
A Satiric History of Video Games
Do the games Earthworm Gym, Lizard Designer Pro, Vin Diesel's Weasel Easel, Silent Butcher, or Wrestlechess intrigue you? If so, then this book is for you.
Art
An Artist Takes Issue with a Brand's Appropriation of Black Detroit
With "Rethink Shinola," scholar and artist Rebekah Modrak has created a biting, minutely researched critique of an appropriative re-branding of Detroit.
Books
16 Art and Design Books for Your Holiday Gift List
A list of art and design books that are some of this year's must-reads.
Art
Embracing Feeling Over Logic in Two Artists’ Fragmented Worlds
In their exhibitions at Honey Ramka, Michael Wetzel and Jessica Cannon long for the cohesion of forms and meanings.
Art
Testing Human Perception with Uncannily Kinetic Body Parts
Elizabeth King experiments with human perception in her installation of mannequin-like sculptures at MASS MoCA.