Music
LCD Soundsystem Looks in the Mirror, Again
LCD Soundsystem's American Dream is a passably punkoid rock album, fiery in places, elsewhere clunky.
Review
Performance
A Dance Crosses Borders, from the Congo to the Stars
Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula and American writer and director Annie Dorsen contemplate storytelling at the Crossing the Line Festival.
Art
The Unknowable Ray Johnson
When Ray Johnson killed himself at the age of 67, the air of mystery surrounding his personality, life, and art only thickened.
Art
Brenda Goodman Cuts Deep
Goodman’s recent work is distressing, captivating, and weirdly funny.
Art
Imagining the Uncanny Life of a Sculptor’s “Awkward Creatures”
R.M. Fischer's lamp sculptures are like an uncanny assembly of anthropomorphic creatures that might abruptly move on their own.
Art
You're a Medici. Can You Support the Renaissance's Best Artists, or Will You Be Exiled?
ARTé: Mecenas from Triseum is a game on the economies of art, set in the tumultuous Italian Renaissance, in which you are a Medici patron.
Art
Tensions Over Untapped Oil Run Just Beneath the Surface at a Norwegian Art Festival
The Lofoten International Art Festival is in the only part of Norway where drilling for oil is not currently permitted, but that could change.
Art
Visitors Were Invited to Curate a Museum of Modern Nature and Here’s What Sprouted
The Wellcome Collection's Museum of Modern Nature is a crowdsourced reflection on our personal relationships to the natural world in the 21st century.
Books
The Arrest of a Turkish Photographer in the Encroaching Night
Erdoğan’s book Control depicts an imaginary night out in Gazi, one of the most dangerous districts of Istanbul, commonly viewed as an autonomous zone of underground activity.
Film
Agnès Varda and JR Take a Trippy, Twee Road Trip
Faces Places is a kind of road movie in which two artists who are electric on screen, one 34 years old and the other 88, stop at villages to talk to and take photos of people in the French provinces.
Performance
What Roberto Bolaño Can Teach Us About Making Art Under Fascism
A new stage adaptation of Bolaño's 1993 novel Distant Star juxtaposes the lofty aspirations and dire realities of poets living through Chile's 1973 coup.
Art
Getting Comfortable with Sexy and Silly Art
SEX, an exhibition at Chicago's Lawrence & Clark gallery, challenged me to reckon with the cultural inheritance of my Taiwanese American upbringing.