Art
Portraits of Breasts that Tell Surprisingly Intimate Stories
Clarity Haynes doesn't give us a face to look at, forcing the eye to find hints of identity in a bitten thumbnail, a tattoo, or a piece of jewelry.
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Film
A New Documentary Reveals the Living, Breathing Joseph Beuys
For the first documentary ever made about Beuys, director Andres Veiel dug into the archives, creating a film that is 95% footage of the artist.
Art
Revisiting Elizabeth Catlett’s Legacy in 12 Powerful Sculptures
An exhibition at Burning in Water remembers Catlett's long and remarkable career in sculpting the female form.
Books
A Modern Poet's Timeless Word Bank
Maureen McLane starts off her collection with a gaze that projects itself from the ground to the depths of the galaxy.
Art
An Artist’s Devotion to Exactness
The sensual surfaces of Susan York’s graphite sculptures bring together sight and touch without favoring either.
Art
Catherine Murphy Sets the Bar Higher and Higher
Murphy shows viewers things they know — a cherry pie or a pile of broken dishes — in ways that are arresting, straightforward, and extremely unsettling.
Art
Taking the Painter Out of Painting
For Christian Bonnefoi, it is when the painter disappears as the author of a painting that the artwork emerges.
Music
Shimmer and Melancholy in SZA's 'Ctrl'
The songs on Ctrl occupy a space where insecurities over sex, romance, and gender are credibly illuminated, coexisting as they do with music committed to functionalism and the pleasure principle.
Art
The Visible Language of Outsider Art
Vestiges & Verse: Notes from the Newfangled Epic, an exhibition of illustrated texts by self-taught artists, feels so intimate that it seems to enter the creative process itself.
Art
A Year in the Life of Pablo Picasso
An exhibition at the Musée National Picasso in Paris tracks the artist's life and work, month-to-month, in 1932.
Art
A Somber Commemoration of the Partition of India, 70 Years Later
Zarina Hashmi speaks directly to the ongoing impact of the upheavals resulting from Partition.
Books
A Trove of Dadaist Fun Is Reissued
As part of the Dada centennial celebrations, Ugly Duckling Presse has published a 1000-copy, boxed-set, limited-edition facsimile of the two editions of The Blind Man, called The Blind Man: New York Dada, 1917.