Art
Photography Acts as a Weapon in a Game About the Iranian Revolution
In 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, the streets of Tehran are combustive, resistance smoldering from tensely linked groups that share a dissatisfaction with the Shah.
Review
Art
The Pointless and Foolish in Endearing Films About Childhood and Old Age
These days, conversations about Brazil may include expressions such as “economic crisis,” “bribery,” “coup,” or “impeachment.”
Art
Detroit’s Cultural Icons Captured with Time-Lapse Scanning
DETROIT — After many decades at virtual standstill, Detroit has been quickly met with change, bringing with it new opportunities as well as growing pains.
Art
Painting Artforum, Cover to Cover
DENVER — With each passing decade, the images and advertisements in the monthly art magazine Artforum slowly shifted from black and white to color.
Art
Lee Miller’s Photographs Frame the Women of World War II
LONDON — A Lee Miller photograph often tells more than one story.
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.”
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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.