Art
MoMA’s Items Exhibition is Smart About Fashion but Too Cozy with Advertising
The ambitious show takes fashion seriously, but blurs the line between design and commerce.
Review
Art
An Archipelago of Precariousness at the Yokohama Trienniale
The work installed in the Yokohama Triennial demonstrate that issues of crisis regarding nationalism, poverty, the fallout of war, and natural disasters should evoke our concern.
Books
A Photographer's Infrared Journey to the Island of the Colorblind
Photographer Sanne de Wilde's The Island of the Colorblind investigates a Pacific atoll where an unusually high percentage of the population has total color blindness.
Art
Adrian Paci Shows Us How We Mourn the Death of Dictators
A meditation on the theater of state funerals for dictators, artist Adrian Paci removes the focus on grief to focus on the mourners.
Music
An Organ Gets a Noble Send-Off as a 1928 Brooklyn Theater Is Being Restored
Before the Brooklyn Paramount undergoes a two-year restoration into a performance space, a concert showed off its 1920s Wurlitzer organ.
Art
Joyce Kozloff Revisits Her Childhood Drawings and Maps to Address Present-Day Anxieties
Using her childhood drawings of maps and figures, Joyce Kozloff underscores the limits of our adult understanding.
Art
Delivering the Internet, an Underground Network Keeps Cubans Connected
At the Queens Museum, an exhibition by Julia Weist and Nestor Siré explores Cuba's underground media-sharing network.
Books
A Graphic Designer's Love Letter to the Endangered Signage of Barcelona
Graphic designer Louise Fili photographed the distinctive signage of Barcelona, as a design inspiration, and argument for preservation.
Art
Kara Walker's Show is a Painful, Necessary Reminder That US Culture Wars Never Ended
Walker's drawn and collaged images depicting haunting scenes of abuse and violence refuse to let us look away from America's bloody past and present.
Art
Manuel Neri's Chromatic Chaos
Apparent in Manuel Neri's works with plaster figures is a kind of dualism: they reference classical forms while also radiating contemporary anxiety and subjectivity.
Art
A Painter Who Merged Korean Art Traditions with Abstract Expressionism
A retrospective at the Korea Society sheds light on the work of a painter who joined Korean influences and techniques with Abstract Expressionism.
Art
How Three Photojournalists Documented the Aftermath of 38 Years of Political Turmoil in Taiwan
An exhibition looks at photographs from a period of political awakening after a troubling era known as the "White Terror" in Taiwan.