Art
Rowdy Celebrations
A few months ago, I saw a painting by Peter Reginato for the first time. It was on the streets of Manhattan.
Review
Music
The Real Real
Kendrick Lamar may not be the Best Rapper Alive, but except for a few thesaurus users from the hip-hop underground he may very well be the most intellectual.
Art
Fabulous Immediacies and Epic Trajectories: Joan Miró’s Late Paintings
How did postwar New York painting influence one of its foremost European progenitors? This question is posed as a partial rationale for Nahmad Contemporary’s current show Joan Miró: Oiseux Dans L’Espace.
Art
Colored Dots and Brass Tacks: The Paintings of Andrew Forge
“They take a long time to make.” That’s what the British artist and writer Andrew Forge said when he was “questioned as to the meaning of his paintings,” according to an obituary that ran in The Telegraph
Art
In Bushwick, an Exhibition Tears Down Walls Between Art and Craft
Neo-Craftivism, a group show at the Parlour Bushwick, brings together works by nine artists that dynamite the tired old boundaries separating craft and art.
Books
Book Designs That Approach Reading as a Creative Act
When searching for a book to give his five-year-old son in 1945, Italian artist Bruno Munari was frustrated by the standard fairytale narratives and structured plots available.
Books
Turning a Historical Village into a Place for Urban Dialogue
For three weeks in the fall of 2013, a 25-acre heritage village in Ontario was transformed by over 30 artists into a small city of installations questioning lines between rural and urban, past and future.
Performance
Human Performers and Toddler-Size Robots, Dancing Side by Side
This is the year of the robot, starting with the movie Ex Machina and filtering down to the performing arts, which have seen a spate of humans dancing with robots in touching pas de deux.
Art
Marcel Broodthaers Killed Art with Currency
I suspect that those in the flow of the globalized 1% who advocate art for money’s sake are purposefully ignorant of Ursula Meyer’s key 1972 proposition.
Art
The Freedmen Fight for Tribal Citizenship in a New Documentary
OKLAHOMA CITY — "When you know what you really are and you haven't been embraced or acknowledged, it's horrible," says Kenneth Payton, a descendant of the Cherokee Freedmen, in the documentary By Blood.
Books
The Lost Ritual of Photographing the Dead
Despite the current ubiquity of cameras, we rarely pause in our flurry of social media sharing to document one of the most significant events in all our lives: death.
Art
An Iranian Artist Exposes Totalitarian Power and Defaces Its Iconography
The manipulation of the masses is ubiquitous in everyday life, from pop culture to religion to politics.