Art
Figurative Painting That’s Emphatically Human
New York City galleries are raining down a smattering of group shows that showcase figurative painting.
Review
Books
A History of Photography in Which the Camera Is Absent
A new book takes is a broader, global look at cameraless photography.
Art
A Miniature Version of the Broad Museum Parodies the Art World
LOS ANGELES — Scott Marvel Cassidy’s art makes viewers do a double take.
Art
Two Shows that Expose the Unseen Infrastructure Around Us
The two exhibitions currently on view at the Swiss Institute examine the usually hidden infrastructure of architecture, and their consideration of space makes them particularly fitting: they are the gallery's final shows before it moves from its current building on Wooster Street to a yet-to-be dete
Art
During the RNC, Two Art Projects Amplify the Voices of Ohio’s Citizens
CLEVELAND — Every television ad is for a presidential candidate, the phone rings off the hook with endless robocalls, and people from all over the country knock on the door to make sure I know where to vote.
Art
A Cherokee Fashion Designer Who Mixed Native Modernism with Midcentury Trends
SANTA FE, NM — The worlds of fashion and fine art often collide, both in the museum and on the runway.
Art
André Masson's Tortured and Sensuous Automatic Drawings
PARIS — In the polyvalent and multilayered drawings of André Masson, you can sense a free hand in love with its own movement, but not with itself.
Performance
To Hades and Back, with a Wailing Jazz Score
Hadestown combines and retells two classical myths — that of Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of Persephone — through a sizzling New Orleans jazz score by Anaïs Mitchell.
Art
An Artist Colors Over Our September 11 Wounds
The Life of Forms exhibition, now on view at Mary Boone gallery is a relatively standard summer show smorgasbord, but one artist who stands out to me is Doug Ashford.
Art
Rachel Whiteread's Concrete Cabin Awaits Discovery in the Governors Island Hills
British artist Rachel Whiteread and curator Tom Eccles discussed both the Unabomber and Henry David Thoreau's Walden in considering the form and isolation of the American cabin.
Books
Reader’s Diary: Kevin Young's ‘Jelly Roll’
So many poets out there.
Art
Better Days
In 1987, Joe Becker, Lee Collins, and Mark began investigating the possibilities of generating a Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) that would, among other things, enable a computer to encode, transmit, and translate one language into another.