Books
Learn to Tesselate with an Islamic Design Workbook
The "Islamic Design Workbook" by Eric Broug encourages a better appreciation of Islamic art, through learning how to create its geometric patterns.
Review
Books
Comics Tales of a Perpetually Horny and Lonely Millennial Girl
Gina Wynbrant's comics are pleasantly uncomfortable and brash.
Art
The Unearthed Wood Carvings of a Part-Time Gravedigger
Andrew Edlin Gallery is exhibiting the wood carvings of the late John Byam, a self-taught artist who transformed his daydreams into sculpture.
Books
A Startlingly Intimate Graphic Novella About the Black Plague
Julia Gfrörer expresses the fantastical and the medieval in the mundane.
Art
A Printmaker’s Nonsensical Designs for an Absurd World
Ryan Standfest’s diagrams are sometimes fraught with Dadaist logic. They are instructions for unstructured outcomes, answers to questions no one has asked.
Art
Dark Matter as a Metaphor for Arts Activism
Activists are like hidden forces operating in the dark, their effects unfolding behind the scenes.
Film
At MoMA, Restored Bruce Lee Masterpieces Leap Back onto the Big Screen
Eternal Bruce Lee will share the purest portrayal of Lee’s style by using the closest possible reproduction of the crisp, colorful, large images audiences saw in cinemas in the 1970s.
Art
Confronting the Limits of Catharsis in a Video About Black American Life
Arthur Jafa's "Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death" communicates a truth about black life in the US: Many of our public encounters erupt in violence or are premised upon violence.
Art
Christopher Walken Heads, Winged Feet, and Other Sculptures Alight Along the East River
The 2016 Emerging Artist exhibit at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens includes a truck full of butterflies, and a gathering of Christopher Walken heads.
Art
A Sculpture Stretches the Tension Between Construction and Destruction
The elements in this anti-composition have almost fallen out of time, and they are about to break apart, or at least to disjoin.
Art
Pavel Pepperstein's Obsession with a Utopian Apocalypse
In these works, the present moment remains altogether elusive.
Art
At the Shanghai Biennale, a Desire to Disrupt the Status Quo
At this year's Shanghai Biennale, curated by the Raqs Media Collective, artists question and disrupt the status quo in multiple ways, presenting the world with new possibilities.