Books
Architectural Histories of New Yorks that Never Were
From a Dodger Stadium by Buckminster Fuller to an Ellis Island by Frank Lloyd Wright, a new book gathers hundreds of alternate realities proposed for New York City.
Review
Art
Seeing Spectral Visions in Fulsome Skirts
The artist Todd Murphy uses skirts as a means of projection, making them gateways to mythical realms.
Art
Maurizio Cattelan Shines in Paris's Ostentatious Mint
The Italian hyperrealist jokester's simultaneously self-deprecating and self-aggrandizing works benefit from being sparsely installed in the ostentatious rooms of the Paris mint.
Art
The Enduring Glow of Neon Art
An exhibition at the Grundy Art Gallery looks at how artists have used neon and elements on the periodic table for the past 50 years.
Art
The Quintessentially Queer Art of Collage
In Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art’s latest exhibition, queer artists turn to collage to construct new worlds and identities.
Books
Parsing a Would-Be Canon of Recent Artists' Writings
The new book Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015 over-relies on art institutions to vet a very uneven selection of writings by 75 artists.
Books
Reader’s Diary: Azra Raza and Sara Suleri Goodyear's 'Ghalib'
While Ghalib's poetry contains the delicate, evanescent moods and divided self-consciousness one associates with periods of decline, it also embodies the opposite, an arrogant rhetorical vehemence and originality that at times calls to mind John Donne more than any of his Western contemporaries.
Art
An Abstract Expressionist Master of Etching
In contrast to other Abstract Expressionists, most notably Robert Motherwell, Richard Pousette-Dart saw prints as a beginning, a surface to work on. He goes over them with acrylic, gouache, graphite, and ink.
Art
The Ecstasy of Drawing
Cecily Brown is genuinely interested in all the ways a body experiencing pleasure can occupy space. In her drawings she records the results of her curiosity, her looking.
Music
Bon Iver Deconstructed
Vocal snobs had better get used to Auto-Tune, because it ain’t going away.
Art
Of Lava and Lava Lamps: Marilyn Gold and Robert Guillot
Marilyn Gold is a painter; Robert Guillot makes sculpture and drawings. Both have been working in New York for decades. As their studio output indicates, they have profoundly different interests and divergent means of exploring them.
Art
The Body Politic, in the Flesh
A snapshot of a singularly unhinged moment in American politics has inadvertently envisioned an uncertain and potentially terrifying future.