Art
Help the New York Public Library Geotag Enigmatic NYC Photos
The New York Public Library has thousands of historical photographs and illustrations of NYC that you can help geotag with a new tool called "Surveyor."
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Art
The Many Shades of Glenn Ligon’s Blue Black
In a new exhibition, Glenn Ligon explores the idea of "blue black" as it manifests not only in black identity but also in American culture.
Art
Degas and His Fascination with 19th-Century Hat Culture
The exhibit at the Legion of Honor Museum includes paintings by Impressionists, along with period hats and bonnets embellished with silk flowers, ribbons, plumes, and feathers.
Art
Fernand Léger and the Rise of the Man-Machine
A major retrospective of the French artist's work at the Centre Pompidou-Metz highlights how he anticipated the accelerating mechanization of human life.
Books
Object Permanence: The Role of Curators and Cultural Institutions
Voorhies’s book is partly a series of case studies on watershed shows of the last fifty years — shows that, in his view, “relie[d] upon and utilize[d] the exhibition form and art’s critical potential within that form.”
Books
Mary Ruefle’s Sage Advice on How to Keep Your Eyes Open While Sleeping
This is a book you want to read slowly, to savor both for what it says and how Ruefle says it.
Art
Hair and Mushrooms, Gnarly Paint and Smooth Pours
Two artist couples that are good friends have an exhibition and show together for the first time. That seems to me as good a reason as any to have a show.
Music
Kendrick Lamar Goes Back to Bangers
Tonally, Damn is Lamar’s definitive album, refining his craft down to its quintessence.
Art
Preserving Dieter Roth's Ephemeral Art
There’s a discrepancy between Roth’s relationship with his art — so much of which was never meant to last — and its reception by an art establishment that has canonized the late artist.
Art
The Alchemical World of a Performance Artist Who Plays with Fire
Miao Jiaxin — best known for a work that invited strangers to Airbnb a cage in his apartment — lit a room up with fire at the Just Situations performance festival.
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Topsy-Turvy Art for a World Turned on Its Head
P.P.O.W.'s exhibition is perfectly timed to dig into the rich seam of madness at the heart of our present cultural and political moment.
Art
Queer Artists Show that Activism Is Key to Survival
VOICE = SURVIVAL contains some wrong turns and dead ends, but these impediments are few and do not detract from the sublime experience of listening to activists speaks their truth.