Art
Lee Miller’s Photographs Frame the Women of World War II
LONDON — A Lee Miller photograph often tells more than one story.
Review
Art
The Natural Geometries of Ellsworth Kelly’s Photographs
Any exhibition of Ellsworth Kelly’s art is a bittersweet event following the artist’s recent death, a postmortem reflection on a masterful legacy.
Art
An Emotional Retrospective for Hilton Als
On March 2 the Artist’s Institute launched its latest season with an exhibition devised, curated, and installed by the writer and critic Hilton Als, an exhibition the institute describes as an “emotional retrospective.”
Art
Seeing Digitally Manipulated Landscapes Out in the “Wild"
One does not often associate a walk in the park with experiencing contemporary art presented on security fences by way of large mesh tarps. But that’s just what you’ll find at Natural Disruptions.
Books
Mining the Unknown in Julian Barnes and John Berger's Essays on Art
Underlying Julian Barnes's and John Berger's respective new collections on art, Keeping an Eye Open and Portraits, is the notion that we're still figuring out how to engage with and portray the past.
Books
A Portrait of Rochester, New York, in 1,000 Photographs
A phonebook is a collection of data that encapsulates a specific place at a specific time. It’s a complete historical record, a city in book form. Rochester 585/716 wonders whether a photo book can be the same.
Books
The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Ta-Nehisi Coates's 'Black Panther'
When it was announced last fall that Ta-Nehisi Coates would write an ongoing Black Panther series at Marvel, with art by Brian Stelfreeze, people beyond the confines of the comics industry got excited.
Art
The Surreality of Selling Sex
MANILA — The single focus of Filipino artist Manny Montelibano’s short film “Here, distorted” (2016), on view at 1335Mabini, is the lighted floor of a strip club in Bacolod, a city on the island of Negros where the artist lives and works.
Art
Within Gallery Walls, an Artist Channels the Ghosts of Marginalized Women
LONDON — It’s hard to fit the afterlife within a white cube.
Art
Drinking Tea with Tom Sachs
I'm eating a single Ritz cracker, its underbelly embellished with a creamy wave of peanut butter.
Books
Reader's Diary: Daniel Hoffman's ‘Next to Last Words’
On its last day of existence — or, more particularly, on a day after its last day, when it reopened just for this purpose — the St. Mark’s Bookshop sold off all of its remaining stock at $2 a copy.
Art
Angela Dufresne Has a Big Heart
Dufresne’s drawings are humorous, whimsical, tender, odd, sarcastic, fantastic, sympathetic, and sweet. She celebrates the wacky and wonderful side of human behavior when overtaken by erotic passion, as well as reaches inexplicable places in our imagination.