Books
"Ornament Is Crime:" A Visual Manifesto for the Modernist Home
Ornament is Crime is a visual compendium of the Modernist home, from early 1900s designs to contemporary structures carrying the austere style into the 21st century.
Review
Art
Trevor Paglen Peers Into the World of Computer Vision
A Study of Invisible Images, which is showing at New York’s Metro Pictures, illuminates the ways that machines interpret and see images.
Film
The Spooky, Masterful Film Boris Karloff Starred in After Frankenstein
Director James Whale used expressive cinematography, Karloff's gift for pantomime, and an original approach to fight sequences to inspire a lasting, haunting sense of fear.
Music
An Intimate Classical Series Staged in a Manhattan Crypt
The Crypt Sessions fill one of Manhattan's overlooked spaces — the crypt at the Church of the Intercession — with unconventional classical music.
Art
An Uncanny, Carnivalesque Exhibition that Tricks and Tantalizes
In Jason J. Ferguson's One-man (freak) show, you encounter one uncanny moment after the next.
Art
In Chris Ofili's Latest, Self-Denial and the Fantasy of Paradise
The show evokes a prelapsarian aesthetic world from which viewers — following the story of the expulsion from the Garden of Eden — are barred.
Art
Work That Is Audible to the Naked Eye
In the often derelict but delicate works of Rolf Julius, subtle noise vibrations become palpable, physical things.
Books
Revisiting the Greenbelt Towns, a Forgotten 1930s Attempt at American Utopia
Photographer Jason Reblando explored the 1930s Greenbelt Towns, a Great Depression attempt at communal living, for his series New Deal Utopias.
Film
A Documentary Dives Into the Making of Psycho’s Iconic Shower Scene
78/52 is an in-depth look at the background, shooting, and lasting influence of one of film's legendary horrors.
Art
Exploring Beech Trees and Buried Painters in a Cemetery Attic
For Among Trees and Stones, artist Matthew Jensen explored Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, installing an archive of its history in the gatehouse.
Art
In Germany, a Curious Obsession with Cults, Icons, and Ethno-Nationalist Movements
KULT! Legends, stars and images, investigates how the Zeppelin legacy can be read through categories of cults that persist today.
Art
Pope.L’s Conceptual Bottled Water Project Calls Attention to the Crisis in Flint
The famed social practice artist sells bottled water out of a Detroit gallery to highlight the continuing emergency.