Books
A Cartoonist's Dazzling History of NYC
Julia Wertz's new black-and-white book of comics, Tenements, Towers & Trash, is a stirring ode to America’s most densely populated metropolis.
Review
Art
Inspired by Indian Ragas, an Installation of Sound and Light Heightens the Senses
At the MELA Foundation Dream House, Jung Hee Choi's Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest XI seduces, disorients, and transforms.
Art
With a Wall of Photos, Bernadette Mayer Evokes a Landscape of Memories
Bernadette Mayer's installation of a wall of images from 1971 is far too evocative of my own history for me to step back and see it “objectively.”
Art
Moroccan Identity and Digital Culture Connect in an Internet-Age Funhouse
Meriem Bennani's dizzying, discomfiting, delightful installation at The Kitchen.
Art
Sculptural Paintings Oozing with Color
Leslie Wayne's richly layered paintings remind us of the playfulness and emotional range to be found in abstraction.
Art
From Swiss Cheese to DNA, the Inventions of a Seminal Playground Designer
The Art of Play explores the career of Jim Miller-Melburg, who holds a place — albeit an often nameless one — in our childhood memories.
Art
Watch Alexander Calder's Kinetic Sculptures in Rarely Activated Motion
Watch Alexander Calder's kinetic sculptures in rare activations through videos shared by the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Art
A Digital Art Tribute to Dada Gets an IRL Gallery Show
Launched in 2015, Dadaclub.online made high-quality scans of three dozen Dada works available for reinterpretation by new media artists. Now, 27 of the resulting remixes are on view in Paris.
Art
Friedrich Kunath Plays With Scent, Sense, and Sentiment
Friedrich Kunath's latest exhibition is fragrant with nostalgia, melancholy, and whimsy.
Books
Literary Luminaries Respond to a Painter's Dark Scenes of Maine
In a new book, fifteen major contemporary authors respond to Linden Frederick's series of nocturnal paintings of small Maine towns.
Performance
Black Queer Artists Explore the In-Between
At LA's Main Museum, an evening of multimedia performance including hip-hop, poetry, and readings looked at the intersections between queerness and blackness.
Art
An Artist's Fraught Portraits with Her Bodybuilder Father
In a series of photographs with her father, Polish artist Aneta Bartos pushes, teases, and challenges our notions of families, bodies, and sexuality.