Music
Long Road Outta Compton
Dr. Dre has been coasting on myth for so long that the success of his new album comes as a genuine surprise.
Review
Art
Something Worth Arguing About: Frank Stella Fills the Whitney
Frank Stella: A Retrospective, which opened yesterday at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is a brilliantly curated, blatantly overhung masterstroke of an exhibition that turns the artist’s weaknesses into strengths and his strengths into powerhouses.
Performance
With Work by Living Composer, Canadian Opera Company Embraces the Edges of Its Art
TORONTO — What do you get when you pair the work of a living composer with that of one from the 17th century?
Art
Looking Beyond the Obvious in Lisa Yuskavage’s Mighty Paintings
WALTHAM, Mass. — At root, Lisa Yuskavage is a portraitist. And while detractors still summon up the provocations in her work, focusing on the perkily carved breasts and openly displayed genitalia, those aspects are only a single, thin veneer atop the subjects she paints.
Art
The Pompidou's Permanent Collection, Reinstalled Along the Lines of Art Theory
PARIS — Where the newness of art comes from (when it comes) is something of a conundrum.
Art
Plumbing the Highs and Lows of Pop Cultural Desire
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — “I want to know what love is,” artist Scott Northrup confides in me via email, and his reference to the Foreigner song of same name is neither ironic nor unintentional.
Art
Play a Tormented Painter in a Video Game of Creeping Terror
In Layers of Fear, a new game by the Poland-based Bloober Team, you are an artist who has gone completely insane.
Books
Worshipping at the Altar of Sweet Saint Death
With a scythe in one hand and a skeleton's face gazing out from a cloak, Santa Muerte appears like a cross between the Grim Reaper and the Virgin Mary.
Art
Designers Reinterpret the Confused Legacy of Le Corbusier for the Tech Age
The Swiss Institute’s second annual architecture and design exhibition attempts to recapture the revelatory voice of Le Corbusier for the technological age. The results are more cumbersome than visionary.
Art
A Mother Lode of a Show About Motherhood
MILAN — The most startling pairing in The Great Mother, an exhibition that tracks the iconography of motherhood in art and popular culture from 1900 to 2015, is a sculptural stand-off between Sarah Lucas and Thomas Schütte.
Art
Isa Genzken's Art of Disruption
Isa Genzken is not a Dadaist.
Art
Finding Art in the Smallness of Everyday Enthusiasms
INDIANAPOLIS — The domestic and personal are generally accorded critical attention when cast as dysfunctional; Michelle Grabner presents the domestic as a relatively positive creative force.