Art
Tripping Through Digital Landscapes in Virtual Reality and on Canvas
The works in Rachel Rossin’s show at Zieher Smith & Horton unfold sequentially, like the illustrations of an idea that is carefully trying to prove itself.
Review
Art
Cultivating the Occult Power and Singular Intimacy of Female Camaraderie
MIAMI — &gallery is a small space that, if crowded, requires lots of shuffling and peering over shoulders.
Art
Faux-Archaeological Artifacts of an Imagined Skater-Aztec Civilization
MEXICO CITY – “America is a big place,” Latin Americans often say in response to American exceptionalism, underlining the US's perceived reign over the rest of the continent through political and economic domination.
Art
When Our Bodies Become as Artificial as the Food We Consume
LOS ANGELES — We are what we eat, the saying goes, but do the artificial components of the modern diet make us something other than human?
Art
The 17 Pairs of Hands That Spun a Little Black Dress into Existence
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — The average American consumer has no idea how much labor goes into an everyday object, even one as omnipresent as, say, a little black dress.
Art
The Handmade Horns and Drone Music of a Fluxus Composer
“The performance is about 70 minutes long,” said 72-year-old composer Yoshi Wada, introducing his iconic “Earth Horns with Electronic Drone” at Soho's Emily Harvey Foundation.
Performance
A Splintered and Sung Exploration of Black Women's Identities
The title of writer-dancer-artist-choreographer Ralph Lemon's new production, Scaffold Room, describes equally well the contraption on and around which it's staged and the way the piece is structured.
Art
An Artist’s Sprawling Universe of Sex and Death, with New Orleans at Its Center
NEW ORLEANS — During a recent tour of the Michael Meads retrospective at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, curator Bradley Sumrall jokingly credited the artist with single-handedly inventing the “hot redneck” genre with his photographs of young Southern men in various states of languid shirtlessness
Art
The Formal Challenges of Figurative Painting
Making sense of an overarching theme like “figuration” would seem a daunting task.
Art
Different Strokes for Jane, or Ekphrasis on Alexis
Pathetic, just pathetic, to expect Strangers to know your name I guess Such is the price of fame
Art
Bodies at War: ‘Soldier, Spectre, Shaman’ at MoMA
World War II signaled the death of figurative art, or so the High Modernist narrative once contended.
Film
After 44 Elusive Years, a French New Wave Masterpiece Comes to Theaters
As it might be if Harper Lee or Thomas Pynchon ambled out of seclusion and made appearances at bookstores and literary conferences, the world theatrical premiere of Out 1: Noli me Tangere is not simply a coming-out party.