Art
The Historical and Fictional Worlds of Nari Ward
MIAMI — At the Pérez Art Museum, Nari Ward’s retrospective looks at simulations of paradise.
Review
Art
The Short-lived 1940s NYC Tabloid That "Dared to Tell the Truth"
The New York PM Daily only lasted from 1940 to 1948, but in its short run it served as a vital progressive voice in New York City and promoted groundbreaking photography to accompany its stories.
Art
Marcel Dzama and Raymond Pettibon's Weird Mind Meld
Gumby, surfers, penises, Batman and Robin, naked ladies with machine guns, Diamond Dogs-era David Bowie, bats and skulls, Charles Manson, dancers in polka dot dresses: These are a few of the motifs that crop up in Forgetting the Hand, a show of collaborative works by artists Raymond Pettibon and Mar
Art
A Curatorial Project Explores What It Means to Organize Your Own Community
PHILADELPHIA — What’s the best way to engage a person in caring for someone different from him/herself?
Art
Brooklyn Museum’s Activist Art Show Is a Messy Collision of Curation and Politics
Agitprop! ought to be an outstanding exhibition of politically engaged art. A feverish amalgam of historic and contemporary artwork, the exhibition is undermined by an ambitious but poorly executed curatorial strategy.
Performance
Injecting Conversations on Gender, Race, and Gay Rights into Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’
If the function of architecture is to create contemplative spaces, then the theater has become a place for ghosts.
Art
In New York City, Punk Is in the Air
There was a week in high school when my mom begrudgingly let me stay out in New York City for almost three nights in a row.
Books
Quiet Drawings from a Life Lost in Mental Institutions
In one of the drawings discovered in a well-worn album, fished out of the trash in 1970 by a teenager in Springfield, Missouri, a wide-eyed woman points to a bouquet of flowers below the words "ECTLECTRC PENCIL."
Art
After Exile, an Artist Confronts the Aesthetics of Diaspora
Azzam gives each work an overarching sense of incompleteness, a longing for a place to which one can never return.
Art
Unraveling and Customizing the Language of Power
LOS ANGELES — Customizing Language explores how geopolitical power is expressed and managed through language, and enhances our understanding of it as a verbal communication system.
Art
Polaroids Steeped in the Fog of Memory
CURITIBA, Brazil — Despite Polaroid having officially discontinued its product in 2008, it has resisted extinction.
Art
Rendering the Anatomy of Our Hard Drives
For many of us, although a decent chunk of our digital lives exists on our hard drives, it's easy to not give the unremarkable metal boxes that quietly sit on our desks or shelves much thought.