Books
A Fragmented Portrait of the Last Male Northern White Rhino
The images in Giovanna Silva's new book are beautiful, but they’re simultaneously awash with heavy gloom.
Review
Art
A Browser Game Recreates the Tedium of a 1990s Office Job
Pippin Barr's game It is as if you were doing work simulates the distractions and mundane tasks of the office, imagined for a future when work is replaced by machines.
Performance
A Shadow Puppet Performance Delves into Dementia and Post-Industrial Detroit
Performed at the Columbia Festival of the Arts, Manual Cinema’s The End of TV impressively incorporates shadow puppetry, live actors, video feeds, a live quintet, and lots of cutout paper props.
Books
Interconnected Comics Examine People’s Relationships to Home
In her new graphic novel Something City, artist Ellice Weaver explores all corners of her fictive metropolis.
Art
A Painter's Fantasies Rendered as Cartoonish Dramas
Satoshi Kojima’s paintings don’t examine human relationships — they fondle them like a bear fondles picnic food.
Art
The Playful, Feminist Sculptures of a Member of the Peruvian Avant-Garde
Teresa Burga's first solo museum exhibition in the United States focuses on her contributions to the Peruvian avant-garde and questioning of art-world hierarchies.
Art
The Tender Gravity of Domestic Spaces Haunted by AIDS
A multimedia exhibit at Museum of the City of New York looks back at the domesticity of the AIDS crisis.
Books
Unruly Poems that Illuminate White Supremacy in Everyday Life
Poet Nikki Wallschlaeger's new book Crawlspace discovers the violence embedded in our most familiar structures: mortgages, meals, rooms, houses, family relationships, and language itself.
Art
Translating Sight into Paint
Working entirely from observation, Daniel Heidkamp’s paintings join what we see with what we feel.
Art
A Painter’s Dreams Go Up in Smoke
Brandi Twilley's paintings of her childhood bedroom before it was destroyed by a fire are devoid of sentimentality, nostalgia, and even sympathy.
Art
Philippe Vandenberg’s Urgent Testimony
At some point in his career, Vandenberg became disgusted with the attention he was getting, and walked away from the work that made him a success.
Art
Walter Benjamin on How to Stop Worrying and Love Late Capitalism
Benjamin’s gargantuan Arcades Project brims with philosophical propositions, poetic digressions, lyrical aphorisms, and experimental theses.