Art
Locating William Kentridge's Massive Mural in the Roman Landscape
ROME — What exactly does public art mean in a town rebuilt uninterruptedly for over 2,000 years?
Review
Art
William Wegman: More Than Weimaraners In Wigs
Among a particular generation of Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live viewers, artist William Wegman is known almost exclusively for his goofy photos and videos of his pet Weimaraners dressed up in human clothing.
Art
Exposing the Editor’s Hand in 20th-Century News Photos
Photography has never gazed so deeply into its own navel as with Thomas Ruff.
Art
Instant Photographs Stripped of Their Instantaneity
HONG KONG — A Permanent Instant at Blindspot Gallery in Wong Chuk Hang gathers works by 10 artists raised or born in Hong Kong who have experimented with the medium of instant photography.
Books
Martin Parr Photographs Real, Sad Food
Limp slices of bread smeared with butter, a single sausage lounging in orange soup, a presentation of pork knuckles resembling discarded brains — this is far from the stuff you'd find on the menu of your local farm-to-table eatery filled with upcycled furniture.
Art
The Personal and Poetic Prints of a Female Pioneer of Copier Art
GLENSIDE, Pa. — I was not particularly excited to see a show of copier art. How different could the images of these photocopies be from the actual copies themselves?
Art
Watch a Weed Artist Sculpt a Beautiful Unicorn Joint
The Oregon-based Greenhand — perhaps the Michelangelo of joint rolling — toked himself into cannabis culture fame in 2014 after posting an image of his Sherlock Joint to Reddit.
Books
Scarred Rejects from the Farm Security Administration's Great Depression Photos
Spend some time browsing the 145,000 negatives at the Library of Congress from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and an odd pattern will emerge.
Art
Stone and Steel Sculptures Tap into a Museum’s Industrial Roots
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Nothing is a singular object here; everything is part of this place and its history.
Art
Paintings of Nudes and Flowers, Dripping with Color and Quirk
Pastels, floral still lifes, and portraits of babies are about as safe and traditional as visual motifs come — they evoke a cutesy Hallmark aesthetic.
Film
Filming a Memorial Ride to the Massacre at Wounded Knee
The US Cavalry massacred over 300 unarmed men, women, and children at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota in 1890, and those who didn't die from the bullets were left to freeze in the bitter December cold.
Film
A Day in the Life of the ‘New York Times’ Obituary Writers
The New York Times is one of the few publications with full-time obituary writers on staff, who each morning tackle a new life suddenly at its end, summing up in a few hundred words how this one person changed our world and why we should care.