Art
Fragile Monuments to the Jar’s Ancient Form
BOSTON — What’s so interesting about Nicole Cherubini’s sculptural work might simply be just how impossible it is to (mentally) house it anywhere specifically.
Review
Performance
Hearing a Poignant Eulogy in David Bowie's First Musical
The musical Lazarus, currently nearing the end of a sold-out run at the New York Theatre Workshop, is the closest we'll get to a final David Bowie performance.
Performance
An Opera About Plucking and Pimping Fallen Angels
The opera Angel's Bone, having its world premiere at the Prototype festival, opens with a married woman fantasizing about telling her husband that she doesn’t love him.
Books
Before Google Earth: A Rare Cartographic Compendium From Renaissance Europe
Long before the ubiquity of Google Maps, these colorful engravings, produced between 1572 and 1617, comprised the world's most accurate and elaborate collection of urban cartography ever made.
Art
Approaching Technology as a Second Skin
MEXICO CITY — Walking through Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Pseudomatisms feels like being inside a cyborg or supercomputer.
Art
Thrills, Fantasy, and Nightmares in 150 Years of Art Inspired by Coney Island
Coney Island has a history as dizzying as any of the roller coasters, carousels, sideshows, and other frenetic attractions that have operated on its piece of Brooklyn shore.
Art
Joaquín Torres-García: A Global Modernist Before His Time
Progress is one of the key myths to the reception, assessment, assimilation, and display of modernist art.
Art
Not Necessarily Pleasant: The Paintings of Juanita McNeely
One of the more ferociously beautiful shows you’re likely to see this season is by a 79-year-old painter who was barely out of high school when she was given six months to live.
Art
Contemporary Latin America as Told by Insiders and Outsiders
MEXICO CITY — TRUE STORY at Proyectos Monclova creates a complex interpretation of Latin America’s “truth,” invoking conversations about extreme image production, the distribution of information, and artists’ roles as translators of their circumstances.
Art
An Artist’s Obsessive Paintings of Alien Madonnas and Romping Nudes
For over two decades, the Swiss artist Hans Schärer focused on painting the female figure, transforming conventional depictions of women into highly unexpected forms.
Art
Identities, Nations, and Histories Painfully Stitched Together
NEW DELHI — Hybrid creatures in legends and myths speak to our collective imagination as a tool to perceive that which cannot be perceived or understood.
Art
The Mysteriously Tiny Drawings of an 18th-Century Artist, Born Without Hands or Feet
In Wordplay: Matthias Buchinger’s Drawings from the Collection of Ricky Jay, opening today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, there’s a 1724 engraved self-portrait that the “Little Man of Nuremberg” would have used to promote his act.