Music
Kacey Musgraves, Ouroboros
“I ain’t pageant material,” declares country songbird Kacey Musgraves on the title track to her new album, but the song’s too pretty, too demure, too well-mannered.
Review
Art
I Is an Other: The Mail Art of Ray Johnson
Ray Johnson disappeared near Sag Harbor just over twenty years ago. But if we refer to the artist by the art, he’s still among us.
Art
Going Meta: Art after the Death of Art
Terminology is slippery, and using it as the premise for an exhibition can be slipperier still. But the concept underlying Metamodern, a group show at Denny Gallery on the Lower East Side, actually holds the potential to enrich an already strong array of works with a few additional, if speculative,
Art
Jesus Looks Like a Lady: A Female Baroque Artist’s Mystical Vision
LISBON — Even as she was the subject of the exhibition The Sacred and the Profane in 1997 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, I had never heard of the Counter-Reformation Baroque (and Bodegón) painter Josefa de Óbidos (1630–1684), before a trip to Lisbon.
Art
A Not-Quite-Great Documentary About the Greatest Art Forger of Our Time
"I think I can paint anything," says Wolfgang Beltracchi, the infamous German art forger, in Arne Birkenstock's documentary Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery.
Art
An Artist's Hard-Earned Dream Drawings
HUDSON, N.Y. — One of the worst things an artist can have is too much skill.
Art
Contemporary Brazilian Artists at Home with Neo-Concretists
“The house was more than a skin ... an organism as alive as our own,” Lygia Clark wrote.
Art
When Postinternet Art Starts to All Look the Same
Molly Soda is an art darling of a generation that grew up with the internet as a constant companion.
Art
A Giant Prayer Wheel in the Heart of Times Square
A giant, beautifully hand-carved, wooden prayer wheel has appeared in the heart of Times Square, courtesy of Brooklyn-based artist duo FAILE.
Performance
Ignoring Broadway Hype in Favor of Intimate Theater
Annie Baker’s style could not be more different from that of Hamilton: her plays are long, light on plot, spoken not sung, full of lengthy pauses.
Art
From Punk to American Folk: Two Takes on Music and Politics
At the center of Folk City is a clue that the exhibit is more about space than about music.
Performance
If Frida Kahlo Smoked a Blunt with Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath once got blazed with Frida Kahlo. This is the setting of Musas, which invites us to be a fly on the wall and listen in on these women's conversations as they smoke, eat, play, and work.