Art
Julie Buffalohead's Theater of Animals
ST. PAUL, Minnesota — Julie Buffalohead envisions a world filled with tutu-wearing raccoons, sassy rabbits, and other anthropomorphic animals.
Review
Art
Picturing a Communist Revolution in the US
Different artists disagree as to how communist convictions are best or most effectively visualized, and the best part of The Left Front is the methodological tension that underwrites the varied approaches on display.
Art
Al Taylor: Not Yet in from the Cold
New York’s art world institutions still haven’t recognized how good an artist Al Taylor was. They overlooked his work while he was alive, and seem hellbent on continuing that willful blindness now that he is dead.
Art
Excavating Environmental Politics from Pristine Paintings and Photos
Art with an environmentalist message can take very literal forms, from a chunk of Arctic ice kept frozen by solar power to a field of wheat planted in a bustling metropolis, but it can also come in the guise of elegant abstract paintings and digitally manipulated photographs.
Art
A Brief Look at the 2015 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts
Often lost amid the Oscar season hype parade, the Academy Award–nominated short films are the lagniappe of the affair, a little extra dose of movie popcorn to munch on and enjoy, even if you skip out on the actual award show.
Books
Tales of Japanese Spirits Give Form to Our Deepest Fears
Have you ever had a supernatural experience, a moment unexplained by reason or logic that left you feeling as if a mysterious force was present?
Books
The Troubled, Creative Lives of Almost Famous Women
Megan Mayhew Bergman’s short-story collection Almost Famous Women, I admit, would have caught my attention simply by its title, as I have an insatiable fascination with eccentric women in history.
Art
After a Call for Change, Artists Respond
What kind of painting do you make in the face of the killing of an unarmed civilian by a police officer? What type of drawing sums up the pain of more than a century of institutional racism?
Performance
The Tricky Business of Dancing with a Robot
It's hard to resist a dancing robot. Taiwanese choreographer Huang Yi's dance piece Huang Yi & YUKA, currently having its US premiere at New York's 3LD Art and Technology Center, shows that it's also very hard to share the stage with a robot.
Art
An Artist Turns Surveillance into Affection
LOS ANGELES — Artist Jennifer Moon is not the first or the last to experiment with self-surveillance, documenting selfies of her every moment for anyone and no one.
Art
Reliving Our (Clueless) Teenage Lives
The movie Beyond Clueless opens at high school’s gates, signaling our venture into teenage life.
Art
Marlene Dumas Paints Ambiguity into a Black-and-White World
LONDON — Walking through The Image as Burden, Marlene Dumas’s retrospective at Tate Modern, is like venturing into a forest of images.