Books
The Evolution of Domestic Architecture Across 100 British Homes
100 Houses 100 Years chronicles a century of architecture through the British home, from classical throwbacks to postwar housing to futuristic designs.
Review
Art
Strange Creatures and Constructions Alight on the High Line
The High Line's Mutations exhibition features motion-capture cameras for birds, audio of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and other uncanny interventions in the elevated park.
Film
A Movie Remembers the Artist Who Made Fashion Illustration Fashionable Again
James Crump’s seductive new documentary delves into the fascinating, 1970s universe of the New York-based fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez.
Art
Artworks from Two Museums Share a Space, But Not a Conversation
An exhibition joins artworks from the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and Studio Museum in Harlem. While an astute idea, there's a sterility to this show that's underpinned by an uninspired curation.
Performance
In Boyle Heights, a Play About a Threatened Village Hits Home
A Latinx-focused adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People dramatizes the tension between the harsh realities of modernity and traditional knowledge and ways of life.
Books
Photographing Some of the World’s Oldest and Wisest Trees
Landscape photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel spent over two years traveling the world to photograph its most remarkable trees.
Art
Rashaad Newsome Recenters Blackness in Art History
In sculpture and collage, Newsome explores agency, feminism, and what we think we're looking at.
Performance
William Kentridge Incants Kurt Schwitters’s Iconic Dada Sound Poem
In a commissioned work for the Performa Biennial, Kentridge reimagines the Dada classic, reciting the nonsensical words while a montage of images flashes behind him at high speed.
Books
The Curious Histories of Colors, from Beige to Heliotrope
These stories about the origins of hues makes for a colorful read.
Art
Mining Mineral Structures with Watercolor and Sediment
Mineral geometries and natural forms inspire delicate artworks with fractal patterns and meticulous details.
Art
The Wartime Quilts Made by Men from Military Uniforms
The American Folk Art Museum in New York is exhibiting wartime quilts made by British soldiers from their uniforms in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Performance
A Surrealist Satire by Luis Buñuel Becomes a Grim Opera
The Metropolitan Opera's lone contemporary production this season is an adaptation of Buñuel's 1962 film about the Spanish aristocracy, The Exterminating Angel.