Books
When "Queer" Art Becomes Commonplace
In The Estrangement Principle, author Ariel Goldberg warns against the dangers of overusing the word “queer."
Review
Books
Reader’s Diary: A Philosopher’s Fictions
It’s kind of wonderful when pure chance leads you to a book that unexpectedly illuminates another one you’ve just read.
Art
Elliott Green Can See for Miles and Miles and Miles
Elliott Green has channeled the landscape paintings of the early Northern Song dynasty along with the fantastical landscapes of the Sienese painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
Art
Robert Mangold’s Sense of Things
For Mangold, more than any other artist of his generation, painting is contingent, rather than self-sufficient. It is part of an active relationship.
Music
Solemnly Dinky High-Camp Bleepy: Chiptune Radio’s ‘Undertale’
Gliding and burbling, ringing and spattering and glitching, a lyrical escapism animates an album whose loveliness and silliness are inextricable.
Performance
Detox, the Musical: Richard Maxwell's 'The Good Samaritans'
Richard Maxwell’s style can be off-putting or self-defeating, yet its virtues are manifest in this piece.
Art
Creature Discomfort: Art in the Cycle of History
It makes sense, at this most critical moment, to take a serious look at the art of the 1980s, its political fury and layered poetics, as an anchor in the storm.
Art
David Reed Did Not Go Along with Those Who Threw the Baby Out with the Bathwater
Making a brushstroke painting in the mid-1970s — a decade after Greenberg, Stella, and Lichtenstein gleefully presided over its burial — was foolhardy and brave.
Books
From Triangle to Tiger, a Handbook for Understanding Symbols
Mark Fox and Angie Wang's Symbols: A Handbook for Seeing is a guide to the evolution of symbolism using 400 examples from art history.
Art
The Emotional Pull of Len Lye's Motion Sculptures
An exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery demonstrates how Lye strove to evoke concrete feelings through fleeting motion.
Art
A Game Challenges You to Find the Folks Hidden in Hand-Drawn Environments
Hidden Folks is a hand-drawn game of discovery by Adriaan de Jongh and Sylvain Tegroeg where you find hidden people and objects in an illustrated world.
Art
Walk Inside a Gothic Prayer Bead in a VR Experience at the Cloisters
The VR experience accompanying Small Wonders at the Cloisters in New York is an immersive tour through the angels and demons of a tiny 16th-century prayer bead.