Art
Decoding Public Art in City Hall Park
Between the four speakers of Chris Watson's "Ring Angels," the fluttering of a thousand wings fills a corner of City Hall Park.
Review
Music
In His New Trio of Releases, Frank Ocean Crafts a Mortal Self-Image
At a time when we swipe through thousands of images a day and cruise through thousands of paintings in an hour at an art fair, it's only the rarest of artworks that we return to again and again.
Art
For Fluxus Artist Alison Knowles, Anything Can Be Art
PITTSBURGH — There are hardly any figures in the Alison Knowles exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art, but the presence of bodies, especially that of the artist, resonates throughout the prints, scroll books, and multimedia installations.
Art
Turning the Male Gaze on Its Head
It’s an oh-so-good premise for an exhibition: exploring the female gaze.
Art
Finding a Dwelling but Not Quite a Home in an Artwork
LOS ANGELES — "You don't know what work is." That's the last line of a poem by Philip Levine that immediately comes to mind when I wind my way through the Made in LA 2016 exhibition at the Hammer Museum and arrive at the final piece I encounter during my visit.
Art
Headless Trophies for Our Cultural Decadence
PORTLAND, Oregon — What can a herd of headless deer painted gold with gaudy tinsel tails teach the 1% and the rest of us? The answer is a lot.
Art
The Abstract Patterns of Sound on Dusty Speaker Covers
There are no drawings on the walls for the Drawing Center's current exhibition — at least, none you may define in the conventional sense of the medium.
Art
After Flint Water Crisis, Police Murders, and More, Midwestern Artists Get Mad
TOLEDO, Ohio — Midwesterners are many things, but they aren’t, as a rule, complainers.
Art
An Indian Modernist’s Abstractions of Famine and War
In Rabin Mondal’s most iconic paintings, amphibious characters resembling frogs stare out of the canvas.
Art
The Dying Typographic Art of Cutting Letters into Steel
In a smoky atelier in Torino, Italy, Giuseppe Branchino works as one of the world’s last punch cutters.
Books
A Graphic Novel Chronicles Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Years
Woody Guthrie was responding to the hardships of the Great Depression, but he may as well have been singing about now.
Art
Exhuming Edinburgh's Hidden Stories
EDINBURGH — “Scotland is a canny nation when it comes to remembering and forgetting,” wrote the poet Jackie Kay.