Art
Better Late Than Never
The art world did not begin to seriously deal with Jack Whitten’s merger of formal inventiveness and emotional content until the past decade, when he entered his seventies.
Review
Music
Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize
Whether or not he raised popular music to the level of literature — a meaningless claim lazy boomers have been pushing on the younger generation for years — he certainly assumed the role of the Romantic author-genius in a popular context and made the resulting dialectic thrilling as hell.
Books
Etel Adnan: Philosophy at Night
Lebanese-American artist, philosopher, and poet Etel Adnan’s recent publication, Night, is in equal measure a series of meditations on intersubjectivity and spirituality, and a dialogue between prose poetry and short verse.
Art
Toy Story: Chris Macdonald’s Tabletop Sculptures
Is Macdonald trying to tell us that, in some important sense, artworks are toys — that there is no significant difference between the two categories of objects?
Art
The Work of Hands: Rachel Beach’s ‘Touchstone’
By foregrounding the schism between form and content, Rachel Beach is demonstrating the agitated unity of her handmade domain.
Art
The History of Gowanus Cemented in Sculpture
A collaboration between artist Christina Kelly and author Amy Sohn pairs cast concrete objects with true stories about long-ago Gowanus residents.
Art
A 10-Year Project to Crochet Our Dying Coral Reefs
The Museum of Arts and Design marks 10 years of Margaret and Christine Wertheim's "Crochet Coral Reef" project, a vibrant response to the destruction of our ocean life.
Art
With Satire, Whimsy, and Fermented Milk, Art Collective Skewers Eurocentrism
Slavs and Tatars come on in full force, filling both floors of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery with their irony-imbued mixed-media work.
Art
A Virtual Reality Journey to a Remote Corner of the Himalayas
Shezad Dawood's new exhibition at Timothy Taylor gallery consists of screenprinted canvases, bronze and concrete statues, and a central virtual reality experience that interpolates visitors to various worlds of experience
Art
Bruce Nauman Grows Up
In a new work by the artist, what stands out is an inescapable contrast between the older and younger Nauman.
Art
Vintage Postcards for the Apocalypse
David Opdyke has taken scores of vintage postcards and altered each image in a way that completely changes its meaning.
Art
How Drawing Became Ida Applebroog’s Means to Communicate with the Outside World
Bouts of internal madness and discomfort have no one specific cure. But drawing did create an outlet and conversational platform for the otherwise silent Applebroog.