Books
Pitching Poetry: Charles Bernstein's Essays and Interviews
From the outset of his career Bernstein has fought for a poetry of leaps and fissures, one that inhabits the space between logic and irrationality.
Review
Art
Everybody Should Want to Belong to Sedrick Huckaby’s Tribe
Huckaby, who lives in Fort Worth, Texas, where he was raised, and teaches at the University of Texas at Arlington, draws people he knows: family, friends, and neighbors in the African American community: he makes the local become something more.
Art
Dawn Clements’ Love of Things
Clements’ dedication to drawing — “the way she sees,” as she once told Susan Swenson — is registered in the shifts and jumps in perspective, and in her use of separate sheets of paper to define the limits of her focus.
Performance
The Embodied Life Writing of Aynsley Vandenbroucke
Aynsley Vandenbroucke has been exploring the relation of literary formalism to the human body in a way few writers, if any, are doing.
Art
Painting Isn’t Dead! It’s Just Slow
Quicktime takes its cue from Raphael Rubinstein’s “Provisional Painting,” published in the May 2009 issue of Art in America. In the essay, Rubinstein discusses a handful of artists who seem to “turn away from ‘strong’ painting” in favor of works “that look casual, dashed-off, tentative, unfinished o
Film
A Cinematic Portrait of David Lynch’s Life and Art Before Film
The new documentary David Lynch: The Art Life is an engrossing account of the artist's early life, from childhood to film school.
Art
Ryan McGinley’s Polaroids of the Uninhibited Youthful Body
Who wouldn’t find the possibilities and uncertainty of youth captivating?
Art
Artists Form Shell Company to Visit and Photograph Tax Havens
Artists Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti traveled to 13 tax havens in an attempt to visualize the fundamentally invisible networks corporations and the ultra-rich employ to hide their wealth.
Art
A Democratic Dance Moves Visitors at MoMA
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Work/Travail/Arbeid is a kind of communal performance in which everyone is welcome.
Art
Surveying 20 Years of French Counterculture, Sans Punk Rebellion
In our age of imprudent Trumpism, this astute nasty display felt like dainty relics mislaid.
Art
Measuring the Social Impact of Internet Images
An ambitious exhibition at the International Center of Photography examines the relationship between new media and the offline world.
Art
The History of Tattoos in New York, from Bowery Sensation to Banned Art
The New-York Historical Society explores three centuries of Gotham's relationship to the tattoo through vintage images, electric pens, and live demonstrations.