Art
The Erotics of the Everyday
MEXICO CITY — Martin Soto Climent’s solo show, now on view at Proyectos Monclova, illustrates humanity’s perverse ability to sexualize everyday objects.
Review
Art
Wayfinding through Ruins and Castles in a Governors Island Art Intervention
It's unlikely you'd notice any of the art in Governors Island's Visitors without a map, as it's hiding in an abandoned swimming pool, a nondescript rock in a fortress, and those hulking billboards urban eyes are trained to ignore.
Art
Artists of African Descent Don Disguises in the Digital Age
SEATTLE — The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) attempts to confront the nuanced subtext of its vast collection of African masks in the ambitious and delightful exhibition Disguise: Masks and Global African Art.
Books
A Handy Beginner's Guide to Urban Light Projection
The Center for Urban Intervention Research recently released its first printed book, A Manual for Urban Projection, to illustrate the potentials of projection, particularly in urban spaces, whether sanctioned or not.
Art
Digital Distractions: Sleepwalking, Glitches, and Junk Mail
In a new monthly series, we’re highlighting a few games, apps, and interactive digital experiences recommended for the art crowd. For September, here's a simulation of an Italian Renaissance painting guild, a Surrealist puzzler, a glitchy Pac-Man, and the most thought-provoking game on junk mail yet
Art
The Raw and Stylish Designs of 20th-Century American Protest Posters
Three uptown cultural institutions in New York City this summer have had significant exhibitions devoted to the history of art and social activism. Taken together, they paint an arresting portrait of the role of artists in affecting social change.
Art
Arlene Shechet's Unified Theory of Ceramics
BOSTON — The ads for Arlene Shechet's exhibition All at Once have been intriguing and unsettling.
Performance
Hip-Hop, ‘Hamilton,' and the Deficit of Diversity on Broadway
Broadway in 2015 still has a major deficit of diversity.
Art
Finding Refuge at a Ball-Pit Beach Inside a Museum
WASHINGTON, DC — If that video of pro surfer Mick Fanning’s near shark attack kept you out of the water this summer, you can still get some fin-free beach time in before Labor Day at the National Building Museum.
Art
An Installation that Squeezes the Art Out of Painting
PARIS — Soon, the desire for art that distinguishes itself from pop culture might become like how drugs used to be: a transgressive, covert endeavor.
Art
A Geometry of Spatial Illusion
PARIS — Felice Varini’s environmental paintings can only be experienced in architectural space.
Art
A Show that Embraces Failure
MEXICO CITY — “I’ll just keep on ... till I get it right,” croons Tammy Wynette’s melancholy, droning voice to viewers as they enter Mexico City’s LABOR gallery.