Books
Antarctic Architecture for Scientists at the Edge of the World
Antarctic exploration no longer involves frigid winters lodged in wooden shacks, or the threat of your ship being smashed to pieces in the ice with no means of communicating home.
Review
Art
Something Old, Something New: An Exhibition Weds Technologies of Yesterday and Today
Walking into Central Booking on Ludlow Street is a little like entering a full-sized wunderkabinett.
Books
Flipping Through Mexico City's First Art Book Fair
MEXICO CITY — On the heels of Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, the Mexican capital now has its own celebration of arts publications.
Art
At the Heidelberg Project’s New Gallery, an Artist Grows Paper Facsimiles of Wilderness
DETROIT — Seeking to capitalize on the steadily growing interest in the Heidelberg Project, Guyton has taken steps to broaden its relevance and extend some of its notoriety in the direction of other emerging artists.
Art
Films That Train Their Lenses on a Media-Saturated Argentina
These works from Argentina explore the effects of living in a media-saturated world, but a theme as general as "media" can erase the specifics of a country's identity.
Art
Alberto Burri’s Challenge
The exhibition Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting, currently at the Guggenheim Museum, is the first large-scale survey of this artist’s work in America since the museum’s previous survey in 1978.
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.
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.