Art
Animations that Show Their Material Roots
A silhouette of a horse is drawn mid-stride several times in layers to create the effect of motion.
Review
Art
An Emerging World of Wonder and Desolation in Equal Parts
This installation begins with awe of the sanitized world that we may likely build in the future, and it ends with the guarantee of nothing.
Art
Artists Reinterpret an Anonymous Soldier’s 1940s Reconaissance Photos of India
Following the Box brings the aesthetic power of found photographs front and center.
Art
Artists from Turkey Navigate History, Memory, and Authorship
ISTANBUL — The authorship of the exhibition, which initially seems clear and dictated by the space, is flipped by the meanings and messages of the works on view.
Film
A Test of Faith: Jacques Rivette's Story of Marie and Julien
No one is quite likeable in Jacques Rivette’s 2003 film, The Story of Marie and Julien.
Art
Starting in 1963, a Photographer Spends His Life Exploring Worlds We Have Yet to Recognize
This is Barboza in a nutshell: headstrong and determined. He did move New York and go to the school he found in the telephone book, but not for long because it wasn’t serious enough.
Books
The Kimono, Examined: A New Book and a Definitive Collection
In the West, is there any garment more elegant than a tuxedo, one that makes its wearer, no matter what size or age, almost always look (and feel) great? In the East — specifically, in Japan — the kimono may be a similar, inestimable costume.
Art
Paint as Language, Language as Paint: Paul D’Agostino’s Chromatic Alphabet
The fluency of concept and form in Paul D’Agostino’s new, bifurcated show at Life on Mars marks a further consolidation of his rigorous attention to language and the infinity of ways it can be parsed, subverted, and remade.
Art
Plastic Bongs, Chinese Mini-Zines, and Endless Labors of Love at the LA Art Book Fair
The fair is a cornucopia of art-world rarities, oddities, and editioned experiments at every turn.
Art
Playing with Time on a Gilded Age Piano
George A. Schastey had one of the most popular design firms among New York City's Gilded Age elite, but now his work is barely known.
Art
Revisiting a Subversive Mexican Art Collective and the Country’s Forgotten Crimes
MEXICO CITY — At first glance, the room seems innocuous.
Art
In the Museum for 100 Days, a Performance Artist Pushes Us to Reflect on Time
BOSTON — There are so many layers to Marilyn Arsem’s piece at the Museum of Fine Arts that it's a bit hard to know where to start.