Art
Painting an Eclectic Mysticism Rooted in Modernism
Gregory Amenoff’s paintings mix influences with knowing exuberance.
Review
Music
Ben Franklin’s Glass Instrument Stirs Back to Life
In 1761, Benjamin Franklin invented an instrument eventually thought by some to drive its players out of their minds: the armonica, which produced the same echoing, high-pitched sounds as singing water glasses. Made of glass bowls nested into one another, with the entire stack skewered with a spindle, the instrument
Art
With Internet Comments and Colonial Imagery, an Artist Remixes Our Hybrid Identities
Larry Achiampong mixes pop culture, internet imagery, and historical iconography related to the African diaspora to craft images, videos, and installations that reflect the complexity of identity in today's fluid, interconnected world.
Art
A Visual Artist Creates Lyrical, Linear Poetry
There is something about a line that is eternal, not because we wish it so, but rather because in separating the light from the dark, we make a passage through all the sundry reasons to lie still and accept what you have been given.
Art
Painting, Performing, and Deconstructing the Body
Jordan Casteel, EJ Hill, and Jibade-Khalil Huffman all use their work to explore the body, whether the subject’s, the artist’s, or the spectator’s.
Art
A Photographer of Unsettlingly Mundane, Lynchian Images
Roe Ethridge combines a commercial photography practice with his personal life to create diquieting images.
Art
Conjuring the Specters of Black Silent Film Actors
In Gary Simmons' newest work, he uses the names of silent screen actors of color and renders them in white paint, bleeding down against a black background like stigmata that suddenly appeared by divine intervention on the gallery’s walls.
Art
Remembering Little Syria, a Forgotten Manhattan Neighborhood
From the 1880s to 1940s, a community of mostly Arab Americans thrived in a Lower Manhattan neighborhood that would later be the site of the World Trade Center.
Performance
24 Hours of Greek Tragedy and Dionysian Debauchery
Jan Fabre's Mount Olympus stitches together more than a dozen classical Greek plays and is unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed.
Art
Lost in an Art Historian’s Annals of 1960s–70s NYC
To enter Douglas Crimp’s exhibition at Galerie Buchholz is to enter a state of overwhelm.
Performance
A Play on the Usual Underground Railroad Story
In the play Underground Railroad Game, currently at Ars Nova, there is no clear North and South on the compass of racialized human desire.
Art
Paying Tribute to Lillian Schwartz, a Computer Art Pioneer
Although Schwartz has been producing computer art since the '60s, she's only now receiving her first solo exhibition in New York.