Art
An Artist Dissects Found Bits of Language
Trained as an anthropologist, Erica Baum views the mundane objects integrated into our daily lives as artifacts that can reveal larger meanings.
Review
Art
Unlocking the Mysteries of Manhattan's New Pyramid
It’s almost difficult to tell the story behind Via 57 West, the new Bjarke Ingels Group-designed residential high-rise now welcoming its first tenants on Manhattan’s west side.
Art
The Met Breuer Traces the Unfinished to the Deliberately Incomplete in Western Art
At a press preview earlier this month, Sheena Wagstaff, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s chairwoman for modern and contemporary art, said that “arguably only the Met” could put on a show like Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible.
Art
Hearing a Symphony in the Cacophony of a Lagos Market
Every city has its own sounds, its distinct murmur and roar of voices and traffic.
Art
Nine Mexican Women Fight Stereotypes in Their Printmaking
MINNEAPOLIS — Animals populate the prints on view at Sus Voces, a group exhibition at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, featuring nine female Mexican printmakers working in traditional techniques.
Art
Stan Douglas Reimagines a Joseph Conrad Spy Novel in 1970s Portugal
LONDON — When I asked Douglas why he decided to shift Conrad’s novel to Portugal in 1975, he replied with a seemingly benevolent “Why not?”
Books
Dave Hickey, Ladies’ Man and Feminist, Made a Book About Women Artists
Dave Hickey has had some ... trouble with women before.
Books
Reader’s Diary: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ‘The Long Road of Sand’
Sometimes you get to know writers best in their minor works; a commissioned text can disclose more than an obsessively personal project.
Art
When Was the Last Time You Thought About a Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar?
Elisa D’Arrigo is best known for her wall works in which the merging of sewing and repetition is a central feature.
Art
So Much Depends…
In 1952, Lois Dodd, along with four other artists, started the Tanager Gallery on East Fourth Street, near the Bowery, one of the first artist-run cooperative galleries in New York.
Film
Parasite Party: Otar Iosseliani’s 'Winter Song'
Parisian by way of Soviet Georgia, director Otar Iosseliani, whose new film Winter Song premiered this past week at the Film Society of the Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, is what one might refer to as a citizen of the world.
Art
MoMA’s New Japanese Architecture: A Vision for the Future That’s Already Here
What if modern architecture could do it all over again?