Music
As most adolescents across the nation sit in their bedrooms and agonize over the eternal question, what do boys/girls like, some of us have more unfortunate and inconsequential concerns: what do critics like?
Performance
While this year some pieces isolated participants through technology, others relished their theatricality and fed off the physical presence of live performers.
Art
Ed Clark’s approach is simple and straightforward, and he has not altered it much over the years. I don’t think he needs to.
Art
The rich and varied evocation of passing moments, memories, and dreams that we encounter in Ming Smith’s photographs are things that the incoming President will continue to denigrate and do his best to erase.
Art
Set to Kanye West’s languorously sublime hip hop gospel track, “Ultralight Beam,” the visuals in Arthur Jafa’s seven-minute film alternate between eruptions of joy and violence.
Art
Louise Belcourt’s work has a remarkable ability to make two-dimensional paintings feel three-dimensional.
Art
The museum should be commended for shining a light on painting, but the show feels like a missed opportunity.
Art
When going too far is barely enough.
Art
A man obsessed with hexagons tried to remake the visual world around him.
Books
From 1977 to 2001, Richard Sandler photographed startling juxtapositions between the grit and glamour of New York City and Boston.
Art
This show arrives at a tender time in the country’s history, when cultural and ancestral histories feel at risk of erasure or condemnation.
Performance
Since 2015, actor and activist Siobhan O’Loughlin has staged "Broken Bone Bathtub" around the world in the intimate space of a private bathroom.