Art
The Joys and Terrors of an Outsider Artist
While Susan Te Kahurangi King has never consciously worked in or against a fine art tradition, her work is surely original.
Review
Art
Walking on Water at Skulptur Projekte Münster
Ayse Erkmen’s water bridge across Münster’s harbor is a singular mesh of sculpture, performance art, Land Art, and perhaps painting, too.
Art
Walking on Water at Skulptur Projekte Münster
Ayse Erkmen’s water bridge across Münster’s harbor is a singular mesh of sculpture, performance art, Land Art, and perhaps painting, too.
Art
Art that Evokes the Uncanny Body
The works in Stranger Things at Outpost Artists Resources highlight the high stakes of our attitudes toward human bodies.
Art
Icons and Oddities from the Massive Frank Lloyd Wright Archive
Through over 400 objects, Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive at the Museum of Modern Art considers the great American architect's career from unexpected angles.
Books
What Can We Learn from Dystopian Fiction About Climate Change?
If you haven’t heard of cli-fi yet, you are not alone; however, you have probably either read or watched some already.
Art
Paul Ramírez Jonas Asks What Constitutes a Public
In his much-deserved 25-year survey at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Ramírez-Jonas challenges conventional definitions of public art by openly asking what brings people together.
Art
The American Landscape Photographers Who Focused on the Environment in the ’70s
A desire to avoid romanticizing the landscape is fundamental to the shifts in landscape photography that occurred in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Art
A Kuwaiti Artist Contemplates the Failure of a Museum that Never Opened
Alia Farid, for her first show in Paris, uses the graphic look of conceptual art to fashion an installation that explores a museum’s failure.
Art
A Display of Sweat, Ants, and Bacteria at the Guggenheim
By ushering into the museum elements that are conventionally seen as unsanitary, Anicka Yi explores the "biopolitics of the senses."
Film
Reactivating the Lost Revolutionary Films of Guinea-Bissau
In her debut feature, artist Filipa César documents the digitization of films made in the African country around the time of its independence.
Film
Albert Maysles’s Final Film Rides with Train Passengers Across the US
In Transit, the late documentarian Albert Maysles’s final film, was completed after he died in March 2015 and focuses on the journeys of passengers at various stages of life.