Art
Speaking the Language of Paint: Karen Schwartz at Life on Mars
The paintings in Karen Schwartz’s show at Life on Mars are big, bold semi-abstractions that skate along the edge of chaos.
Review
Art
A Film Portrait of the "Doomsday Vault" that Guards Our Agricultural Biodiversity
On a Norwegian island 810 miles south of the North Pole is a safety net for an agricultural crisis.
Art
El Anatsui Goes to School
KINDERHOOK, NY — “The School,” Jack Shainman’s splendid gallery in Kinderhook, NY, is about to blow its own roof off.
Performance
Black Box Theater for an Audience of One
In the mobile black box of Theatre for One, there is only one audience member for each of the seven rotating plays.
Art
In Two Istanbul Galleries, Artists Piece Together Memories of Gezi
ISTANBUL — Central Istanbul looks markedly different today than it did around this time two years ago.
Art
A Noise Festival Makes Melody in Strange Ways
Ende Tymes, the increasingly extensive “festival of noise and abstract liberation,” successfully returned for its fifth incarnation last week.
Art
Traces of Human Civilization, Cast from Styrofoam Packaging
The exhibition in the back room of A.I.R. Gallery's new space in Dumbo feels like a cross between a temple and an archaeological site.
Performance
The Slippery Politics of Weaponized Theater
Trash Cuisine is a play about the visceral horrors of political violence.
Art
The (Un)Changing Portrayal of White Women in 100 Years of Advertisements
The idea is so ingenious, it almost seems obvious: take advertisements and remove the text that makes them so, leaving only a string of images behind.
Art
Personal Takes on the Realities of Colonialism
LONDON — How do you tell a story that does not want to be told?
Art
Kehinde Wiley Paints the Precariousness of Black Life
Much has been made of the current Kehinde Wiley retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum.
Art
Weather Report: Hito Steyerl's Documentary Forecast for the Digital Age
For the last several years now, as the credits roll at the end of her films, artist Hito Steyerl’s name, rather than appearing alongside the typical “Written and Directed by,” is listed with roles (or non-roles) considerably more blurred and expressionistic.