Art
Skill Wins Over Vision at the Art Students League Instructors’ Exhibition
Founded in 1875, the Art Students League of New York mounts an annual exhibition of art by their instructors, so we took a look.
Review
Art
Art Amid Governors Island's Architectural Decay
In its 10th edition, the Governors Island Art Fair in New York expands its installations into 1920s barracks.
Art
Let Other Visitors' Stories Guide You Through Brooklyn Bridge Park
"HEAR THEIR THERE HERE" created by Geoff Sobelle for St. Ann’s Warehouse is a site-specific sonic experience for Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Art
A Haunting Game of Survival Takes You to a Space Station in 2088
Fullbright's new theater-inspired game Tacoma immerses players in a space station haunted by the ghosts of its missing crew.
Art
Paintings That Manage to Focus Our Divided Attentions
How can one static image begin to capture lived experience? Njideka Akunyili Crosby answers this question with astonishing polish and grace.
Art
The Pleasures of Slow Paintings
These paintings are what the artist Suzan Frecon calls “slow,” meaning that they reveal themselves quietly over time.
Art
Ruth Asawa, a Pioneer of Necessity
Asawa was a woman of Japanese ancestry making art in the years after World War II, which was a double whammy.
Art
Russell Maltz's Hard-Hat Formalism
Maltz sees a load of cinderblocks as a legitimate painting substrate — even after it's broken down and mortared together as the wall of an office building.
Music
Where Body Meets Machine
The music of Japanese Breakfast’s Soft Sounds from Another Planet trembles, alive with possibility.
Art
Olivia Munroe’s Art Goes Mystic
A funny thing happened to Munroe’s works on their way to finding physical form.
Art
When Art Refuses to Let Go
Delirious at the Met Breuer is an exhibition filled with beautiful but comparatively polite works by habitually transgressive artists.
Performance
The Audacity and Abandon of Pina Bausch
In Café Müller and The Rite of Spring, currently playing as a double bill at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Tanztheater Wuppertal offers up catharsis followed by brutal physicality.