Art
The Hollow Symbolism of Jeff Koons's Blow-Up Ballerina
The artist's 45-foot-tall inflatable sculpture at Rockefeller Center aggrandizes an outmoded model of femininity.
Review
Art
Nigeria’s First-Ever Venice Biennale Pavilion Challenges Colonial Narratives
The Nigeria pavilion, themed around the concept of "now," hopes to shape a cultural and national identity outside of the colonialist narrative that the country has long been forced into.
Art
A Rare Loan from Windsor Castle Brings Mark Catesby's Watercolors to South Carolina
A century before John James Audubon illustrated The Birds of America, English naturalist Mark Catesby journeyed across the Atlantic to systematically study the animals and plants of the "New World."
Books
A Book Highlights the Oddities of the Woodcut World
These prints helped render the world for mass consumption.
Art
A German Art Space’s Inaugural Exhibition Transforms It into a Haunted Haus
The inaugural exhibition at Haus Mödrath Space for Art deals with the tensions shared among the mansion, its history, the landscape, and the home as a display space for art.
Books
The Uncanny Body: Jennifer Firestone's Gates and Fields
At its center, the book offers the refusal to accept an already-formulated understanding of loss that lies at the heart of the experience of grief.
Books
Julio Cortázar's Literature Class
Circumscribing his goals and ambitions, Cortázar says that “in the present day, what matters is not to be a writer from Latin America but to be, above all, a Latin American writer.”
Art
Florine Stettheimer’s Vision of Equality
Stettheimer was born into a wealthy, financially secure Jewish family, and she never had to work. For some people, her wealth means that she did not suffer enough to be an artist, and therefore her work does not have enough gravity.
Art
The Future Is (Still) Female: Feminist Art for the 21st Century
The Future Is Female focuses primarily on the work of women artists who came of age after the Women’s Art Movement.
Music
Twelve Reasons Why the Chainsmokers Are Failing at Love
Such is the appeal of the blank slate.
Art
Books, Wefts, and Black Lives Matter at the Baltimore Museum of Art
The rewards of what is in plain sight far outweigh what is tucked away.
Art
Pippa Garner's Crossover Art of Gizmos, Gadgets, and Gender
Garner has been an absurdist for four decades, satirizing consumerism, marketing, and waste in performance art, videos, sculpture, installations, drawings and magazine editorials and art pages.