Art
How an Artist's Activism Nurtured His Painting
This exhibition is a ten-year survey concentrating on Peter Krashes's paintings that emerged in an almost symbiotic relationship with his political involvement as a community organizer.
Review
Art
An Artist Reimagines His Ancestors Through Costumed Self-Portraits
What separates Ken Gonzales-Day’s exhibition Bone-Grass Boy from the mass of artwork addressing the politics of representation is its investment in intimate autobiography.
Books
Photographing the Strange Normalcy of Israel's Ubiquitous Bomb Shelters
For Architecture of an Existential Threat, Adam Reynolds spent three years photographing some of Israel's 1 million bomb shelters.
Art
Sanford Biggers Summons the Power of Deep Music
Biggers's current exhibition at Marianne Boesky gallery, Selah, taps into something deeply powerful and ancestral.
Art
A Hidden Flaneur Who Records the Minutiae of Street Life
Mikiko Hara made a conscious decision to discard reliance on the viewfinder, which led to a body of work that is true to her intention to capture street life as a continuous process.
Art
At Storm King, a Half-Buried Roof Shelters Oral Histories
Heather Hart's "The Oracle of Lacuna" creates spaces for communal exploration of little-known regional oral histories.
Art
Larry Rivers’s Unrelenting Passion for the Figure
(RE)APPROPRIATIONS at Tibor de Nagy exhibits Rivers's passion for and innate ability to paint figures convincingly, rendering them with sensitivity and expressiveness.
Art
A Sea of Suspended Boats Evokes the Migrant’s Perilous Journey
Hew Locke’s installation at the Pérez Art Museum Miami features dozens of small boats suspended from the ceiling, forming many horizons that nearly blend into one.
Books
25 Years of Photographing the Human Skull
Lynn Stern's 25 years of skull photographs are compiled in a new book, which considers the art historical context of this vision of death.
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.
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.