Books
Reader’s Diary: On Richard Bellamy
Richard Bellamy is one of the very few art dealers around whose name the word “legendary” floats like an aura. But how to convey what was so special about him is a nice problem for a biographer.
Review
Art
Every Day Is Black Friday in Doha
In her memoir, The Girl Who Fell to Earth (2012), Sophia Al-Maria, who was raised as a bicultural Muslim, says she feels like a “deep-sea diver, adjusting constantly to the pressures of […] two very different environments.”
Art
Indelible Stains
If you should not judge a book by its cover? What about the living room you grew up in? What do its contents say about you? Does its décor reflect who you are?
Art
Rodin in Process at the Peabody Essex Museum
Speaking very generally and just of figurative art: sculpture creates a world around itself, and painting creates a world inside itself.
Music
Gender Menders: Anohni, RuPaul, Gwen Stefani, Now That’s What I Call Country
Like the idiot I am, I got Grimes’s Art Angels very wrong when it surfaced last year.
Art
Poetry at the Root: Yoshimasu Gozo’s Art, Writing, and Music
TOKYO — It’s not often that a major art museum hosts an exhibition for a poet.
Art
Art, Work, and the Workaday
The lobby gallery at the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-designed midtown office tower at 1285 Avenue of the Americas, with its partitioned walls flanked by floor-to-ceiling windows on the north and south sides of the building, is unusually well-suited for both casual and concentrated encounters with art
Art
Paintings of Detroit Ruins that Ring True
DETROIT — Nancy Mitchnick's representations of places — whether they refer to actual locations or states of mind — ricochet out into the real world, conveying a sense of how a place looks based on how it feels.
Books
Our Architectural Future Isn't What It Used to Be
Post–World War II, architects were confident that a better life could be built, that design could improve society through efficiency and community.
Art
An Artist Couple from Bangladesh Shares Their Deeply Political Work
EAST LANSING, Mich. — It’s most intuitive to equate activism with a kind of direct action: collecting signatures, participating in a public protest, sending sharply worded letters, community organizing.
Art
Prismatic Pictures of Playgrounds
Within the chaos of a city, filled with walls that appear bleak and gray because they block the sun, we have set aside certain spaces, glittering under slants of canyon light, where the solitude of urban life breaks for communal play.
Art
Paintings that Play Out the Rhythms of Sex
Jonathan Lyndon Chase is all about the funk.