Performance
Performance Matriarch Vaginal Davis Upends Fixed Notions of Genre and Gender
The punk icon kicked off the New Museum’s performance series last Thursday in conjunction with the just-opened show Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon.
Review
Art
Magic Mushrooms in an Unmagical Show
Magic mushrooms can create a headspace where erudition and imagination become artistic affiliates, but in this show, the trickster disorientation of collage is the closest we get to that experience.
Art
Photograms that Capture Darkness and the Flicker of Fireflies
Michael Flomen's first photographs were made with the light of fireflies, inspiring a series of work that converses with rain water, earth, and plant life.
Film
Mother! Is a Wild Ride, But Is It Also Strangely Feminist?
The film has elicited intense reactions with its super-saturated horror, but it also has a campy streak with feminist implications.
Art
15 Questions About Kara Walker's Latest Exhibition
Who is made whole by Walker's decontextualized images of violence correlated with race, gender, sex, and with chattel slavery and the social practices devolving from that historical circumstance?
Art
Drive a Hand-Drawn Tram for Cats in This Illustrated Game
Artist Alexander Perrin's Short Trip is a hand-drawn interactive game in which players drive a trolley for cats.
Art
How Soviet Art and Design Promoted Communism After the Revolution
The Paper Revolution at the ADAM: Brussels Design Museum unite close to 100 original works on paper from a variety of artistic Soviet luminaries.
Art
At the Brooklyn Museum, New Research on Lynching in America Dialogues with the Art
The Legacy of Lynching is a collaboration between the museum and the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, presenting racial histories we've long been asleep to.
Books
Vivian Maier, the Photographer Who Wanted to Go Unobserved
Maier didn’t want people to know where she lived, and often lied about her personal history.
Art
Kinetic Sculptures Animate US History
John Buck’s ambitious kinetic installations are excoriating indictments of the current political administration.
Art
The Raging Optimism of Sally Saul
Sally Saul makes sculptures that are funny, sweet, and tender – states we are not likely to encounter in art or even in life.
Art
A Watery World Turned Upside Down
Tom Burckhardt’s “STUDIO FLOOD” is a tour de force artwork with a willfully scruffy, DIY look.