Books
A Mysterious 17th-Century Artist Who Saw Visions in Firewood's Rings
In What Heaven Looks Like art historian James Elkins imagines the artist behind a series of 17th-century visions painted from the ends of firewood logs.
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Art
In Chelsea, Three Disappointing Art Exhibitions (And One Pleasant Surprise)
Finding a lot of forgettable work from renowned artists, and an unexpectedly happy encounter with a classic.
Art
Delicate Paintings from Drag Icon Vaginal Davis Meet Monumental Sculpture From Louise Nevelson
With 20 tiny paintings and one hefty sculpture, an unexpected pairing of artists offers a nuanced take on femininity.
Art
An Exhibition Turns a Tibetan Art Museum into a Musical Instrument
The World Is Sound at the Rubin Museum asks visitors to listen to Tibetan Buddhist art with their whole body.
Art
The Heavy Light of Christopher Wilmarth's Drawings and Sculptures
For Wilmarth, light and life were inextricably linked — a connection that shone in his art of steel, glass, and paper.
Books
If These Books Could Talk, This Is What They’d Say
In a collection of one-page graphic stories, anthropomorphic books and imaginative characters take on God, museums, and identity crises.
Art
Philadelphia's Monument Lab Asks, "What's Right for Public Space?"
In Philadelphia, artists including Mel Chin, Hank Willis Thomas, Karyn Olivier, and Michelle Angela Ortiz create new possibilities for monuments in public spaces.
Art
An Exhibition About Blindness Engages All the Senses
In Naples, using sight, sound, voice, and movement to evoke the varied experiences of blindness.
Books
The Stories of 100 Midcentury Chairs
Midcentury modernism continues to inspire our desire to sit on something beautiful and fashionable.
Art
Images from Boston’s Island of Exile
Mark Lamster's The Island That Nobody Knows explores Boston's Deer Island, a former prison and quarantine site that now houses the city's sewage plant.
Art
A Retrospective of Edgar Heap of Birds Rises High
With public art pieces, biting political, text-based work, and more intimate abstract paintings, this small exhibition illuminates Heap of Birds’s expansive career.
Books
Stan Brakhage Defines His Filmmaking Practice with Metaphors
Metaphors On Vision, Stan Brakhage’s first book, is highly peculiar for a fully fleshed out credo on cinema, for it contains prose poetry, scripts, script fragments, sketches, and letters.