Music
Let's Spend the Weeknd Together
Abel Tesfaye’s new album, Beauty Behind the Madness, cements the former indie/DIY/Internet mystery man’s newfound commercial clout.
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Art
A Beautiful Monster Reborn: Francis Picabia in the Windy City
CHICAGO — “Paintings are made for dentists.” So goes one of the many acerbic lines in artist Francis Picabia’s freewheeling poems.
Art
In Martha Wilson’s New Photo Works, Feminism Meets the Absurd
What do women want?
Art
“Insanity, Chaos, Weirdness”: Gregory Gillespie’s Solitary Path
When I left Gregory Gillespie: rorschaching at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects on the Lower East Side, I decided to leave it alone.
Art
The Eerie Abandoned Dreams of Samara Golden
The current exhibition at Canada Gallery, A Fall of Corners by Samara Golden, leads the viewer up to the threshold and almost across into an enticing, dreamlike, and slightly askew dimension.
Art
Rubin Museum Opens Expanded Buddhist Shrine Room
Flickering light and faint sounds of chanting accompany the Rubin Museum of Art's expanded Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room, where visitors to the Chelsea museum can pause in a space of contemplation.
Art
Considering Chocolate's Colonial History
MEXICO CITY — Chocolate is very versatile.
Art
A Hardworking, Sincere, and Studiously Inept Painter
“Josh Smith: Sculpture” is how the sign reads. Yet behind it is a conservatively installed exhibition of drawings, conventionally framed and tastefully spaced on Luhring Augustine’s neutral white walls.
Art
Synchronizing the Cycles of Capitalism and the Female Body
Sara Shaoul’s Strange Labor looks to expand our understanding of the self in the world by examining the interconnectedness of female body patterns and sociopolitical cycles.
Art
7 Artists, 25 Pages Each, 1 Half-Century Later: Revisiting the Xerox Book
In 1968, Seth Siegelaub and John Wendler published the first edition of the so-called "Xerox Book." The untitled publication, which was conceived as an exhibition in itself — and is currently the subject of a show at Paula Cooper Gallery — is now considered a seminal artist book.
Art
Conjuring Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Final 24 Hours
LONDON — American director Abel Ferrara’s newest film documents the final 24 hours of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s life in an intelligent way, without rhetoric or prudery.
Art
Objects with an Absurd Urge to Move
The exhibition offers an unusual and surprising amount of pleasure: it's delightful to see these objects and the dancers, as though they were at play, all linked together in their absurdity.