Music
Phonetic Yeetcraft
Anybody who can parse two consecutive words on the new Young Thug record should pursue a career in speech therapy.
Review
Art
Earned Magic: Alison Hall's Deceptive Monochromes
Alison Hall’s small, smart, monochromatic panels are clear, compact and not at all what they seem.
Art
Seeing Mexico Through the Lens of One of Its Great Cinematographers
When it comes to the celebrity of film crews, fame is not fickle; it dotes lovingly on the director.
Art
A Textile Artist's Long Overdue US Survey Ropes You In
Human figures seem to lurk in almost all of Françoise Grossen's folded, knotted, and coiled rope sculptures.
Books
Rare Stephen Sprouse Sketches Shine a Light on the 1980s Style Icon
If there were ever a fashion world equivalent of Andy Warhol, the universe found it in Downtown street kid Stephen Sprouse.
Art
Reclaiming the Lost Feminism of Fairy Tales
In the back room of the Drawing Center, Natalie Frank's lavish pastels conjure fairy tales in all their grisly and gorgeous glory.
Art
Politicized Artworks That Ask Viewers to Fill In the Unknowns
Two years ago, at a Cildo Meireles retrospective in Madrid, I sat on a wooden dock that overlooked a paper sea and a vast, blue plaster sky.
Art
Hand-Stitched Fantasies of Reality TV
In artist Sophia Narrett's current solo show at Arts+Leisure, two women meet on the set of The Bachelor and swiftly fall in love — with each other.
Art
The Art Books of Henri Matisse
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — The Art Books of Henri Matisse at Charlotte’s Bechtler Museum of Modern Art is a travelling exhibition with a new twist.
Books
An Intimate Reading of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Poetry
Those familiar with the artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat will agree that he is a writer.
Art
Modernist Male Art Is Timeless, but Not Timely
PARIS — According to Sigmund Freud, a key that opens a room in a dream is unmistakably phallic.
Performance
A Holocaust Survivor's Story in Postmodern Dance
Taking testimony from a Holocaust survivor and turning it into a dance is an intriguing but risky proposition, especially if you're not a Jew.