Books
100 Years of Artists' Maps of New York City
Artists and designers through the age have imposed their visions of the present and future on an always-changing New York.
Review
Books
The Long Shadow of Artificial Darkness on Modern Culture
The emergence of artificial darkness in the 19th century, from the darkroom to the theater, radically influenced our experiences with art.
Books
Facsimile of the Voynich Manuscript Now Available to Citizen Cryptographers
Yale University released a book that recreates through photographs the enigmatic medieval Voynich Manuscript in its full form.
Art
A Chinese Museum Invites Artists to Respond to the Local Landscape
"Mountain Sites" is a merry chase of an exhibition that remains tuned in to the presence and the (often anachronistic) contemporaneity of its locality.
Art
The Loneliness of a Digitally Manipulated Boxing Match
Encountering a boxing match projected on the wall of a darkened room is pretty unlikely while roaming around Chelsea galleries — unless you’re at a Paul Pfeiffer show.
Art
Unpacking Trauma by Examining the Bullet that Caused It
The video essay is Vanessa Gravenor’s attempt to make sense of her trauma, which remains serpentine, meandrous, never subsiding, ever present.
Art
A Small Celebration of One of the Kiowa Six’s Most Prolific Painters
Four paintings by Stephen Mopope, discovered a few years ago at Brown University, are on view for the first time.
Books
Visions of the US Flag that Could Have Been
A book revisits a selection of 50 previously unseen suggested redesigns of the American flag made between 1958 and 1959.
Art
Exploring the Faulty Nature of Memory in Video Art and Clay
Artist and composer Alexis Gideon synesthetically examines the nebulous line between memory and truth in The Comet and the Glacier, on view at Locust Projects.
Art
A Video Cookbook Documents the Diverse Food Experiences of New York City
Artists Theresa Loong and Laura Nova's Feed Me a Story gathers family recipes and immigrant food experiences through a roving social engagement project.
Music
Musical Compositions Stitched from Lace Patterns
Harpist Zeena Parkins's project LACE translates the visuals of lace fragments and knitting charts into notation for instruments.
Art
A Forgotten 20th-Century Photographer Who Folded Her Work into the Fabric of Life
An exhibition at the Americas Society spotlights Kati Horna, who believed that the circulation of images, rather than the standalone photograph, could bring about social change.