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.
Review
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.
Performance
A Performance Where Victorian Mourning Braiding Meets Neuroscience
Artist Nene Humphrey’s 'Circling the Center' is a striking visual metaphor for grief.
Art
A Photographer’s Multifaceted Scenes of Mexican Street Life
An exhibition at the Aperture Foundation gathers pictures taken by Alex Webb over more than 30 years, all across Mexico.
Art
Constructive and Creative Approaches to Talking About the Weather
The exhibition features 17 artists, whose wide-ranging works put the lie to prevailing notions that the weather is a soporific subject, that environmental issues cannot be made engaging.
Art
Envisioning Our Future States Through Crypto Currencies
An artist helps us understand how crypto currencies are creeping their way into our global economies.
Books
Japan's Islands of Monsters
Every year around September, mud-covered figures run amok in the streets of the Shimajiri District in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture, smearing dirt on anyone they encounter.
Art
The Centennial of Centaur, a Modern Typeface that Revived a Classic Design
The Grolier Club celebrates a century of Bruce Rogers's Centaur type, the "noblest Roman of them all."
Art
Seeing a Horror Movie Through the Reactions of Its Spectators
The best horror movie in New York City right now is Alex Prager’s La Grande Sortie, a 10-minute film playing on continuous loop at the Chrystie Street branch of Lehmann Maupin Gallery.
Books
Inexplicable Found Photographs of Women in Trees
It all began at a flea market in Frankfurt, when photo collector Jochen Raiß came across a picture of a woman wearing a summer dress and high heels.
Art
Revisiting an Art Collective’s Ephemeral Time Capsules
Somewhere in Artpark, the 108-acre state park in Lewiston, New York, is buried an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser covered in tar and filled with 30 suitcases packed with consumer goods such as cigarettes, condoms, and magazines from Reader's Digest to Playboy.