Books
"Japan's View of Pussy Is Really Weird": Vagina Kayak Artist Releases Manga Memoir
For the past two years, we've been following the strange saga of criminalized Japanese "vagina artist" Megumi Igarishi.
Review
Art
The Fluid Experimentation of László Moholy-Nagy in a Long-Awaited Retrospective
Decked out in red factory overalls, László Moholy-Nagy cut a striking figure of an avant-garde utopian during his time teaching at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1923 to 1928.
Art
Young Khmer Artists Try the Tricky Business of Mapmaking
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The mapping and the drawing borders has been an especially violent and contested activity here for centuries.
Art
The Beauty That Will Not Save the World in Contemporary Russian Art
MOSCOW — If you were to go only by the types of exhibitions you see in Moscow galleries, you would get only a partial view of what’s happening in art in Russia.
Books
Reader’s Diary: ‘Women of Abstract Expressionism’
We think the canon of American art of the 1940s and ‘50s is set in stone, but we’ve got a lot of looking still to do.
Books
Nicolas Hundley’s Heretical Machinery
Nicolas Hundley is a poet of pronouns. In many of his poems and prose poems, a pronoun – he, they, you, and we – is central to each line or sentence.
Art
Juan Uslé’s Brushstrokes
In his current exhibition, Membrana Porosa, at Cheim and Read, the artist’s first in New York since 2011, Juan Uslé shows fourteen paintings in the gallery’s four distinct spaces.
Music
Different Shades of Punk: White Lung, Parquet Courts, Scandal, Modern Baseball
Sometimes genres die quickly (electroclash), sometimes they remain with us forever (teenpop). Sometimes they stop developing and get kept alive indefinitely by loyal keepers of their flame and proud denizens of their subculture.
Books
Japan, in from the Wilderness: Reiko Tomii’s Expanded Modern-Art History
The Japanese-born art historian Reiko Tomii is one of those researchers who is both passionate about her subjects and recognized among her peers for her meticulous mapping of the cultural-intellectual terrain from which they emerge.
Art
Adam Simon’s Deadeye Realism
As is often the case with Simon’s work, the logo paintings require a period of conceptual catch-up before they can be seen as what they are, rather than as what they seem.
Art
Solve a Murder Mystery in a German Rapper's Interactive Music Video
In German rapper Kontra K’s interactive video for "Next to You," off the new album Labyrinth, a fisherman discovers a crime scene at a quiet lake house.
Art
Dangerous Bodies on the Verge of Breaking Down
The Performance Anxiety series, curated by Ventiko, stages a monthly performance buffet on the Lower East Side.