Art
Art That Was Always Meant to Be Hidden
The portraits in Oliver Jeffers' Dipped Paintings series exist as wholes only in the memories of those who witnessed their submersion.
Review
Books
Repicturing Black Fatherhood
I overheard a man suggest to another that Father’s Day be renamed. For him, and for so many other Black men he knew, there was or is no biological father to celebrate the holiday with.
Art
The Origins and Evolution of Group ZERO
There are undoubtedly many stories attributed to the founding of ZERO in post-World War II Germany, as there were with the inception of Dada during the earlier Great War that raged outside the Swiss borders from 1914–18.
Art
Marking Portraits with the Passage of Time
David Mramor’s glamorous pathos is a precise and nuanced excavation of the layers inherent in the steady march of time — a journey, perhaps, toward a painterly manifestation of the punctum.
Art
Nam June Paik's Robot Dreams
Nam June Paik: Becoming Robot, organized by the Asia Society Museum, is the first solo show of the Korean-born artist in New York City since his celebrated 2000 Guggenheim retrospective.
Books
The Economic Divide in Video Games
It’s all fun and games until the thinly veiled artifice of a virtual world becomes all too real.
Books
Illustrating the Invisible Spaces of Migrant Detention
Migrant detention centers are almost as invisible as the people they hold, their plans classified, photography prohibited. Toronto-based artist Tings Chak created a visual narrative through Canada's centers that's a mix of graphic novel and architectural design.
Books
New Monograph Explores Our State of Being Like "Characters in a Disaster Movie"
Photographer Hiroshi Watanabe describes our state of being in his new monograph as like "characters in a disaster movie."
Books
Photographs from an Underground Laser Laboratory
Deep beneath the University of Texas in Austin, the Texas Petawatt Laser can reach a power of 1,000 trillion watts — around 2,000 times that generated by all the country's power plants combined.
Film
Dismantling the Higher Ed Swindle
Last week, Pioneer Works hosted a film screening of documentarian Andrew Rossi’s Ivory Tower followed by a panel discussion about the increasing cost, complex ideological underpinnings, and social dynamics of higher education in the United States.
Art
Hotel Paranoia: An Embedded View of Edward Snowden
BERLIN — A spirit of “fearlessness and fuck-you” drove NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to make his identity public, explains reporter Glenn Greenwald in Laura Poitras’s documentary, Citizenfour.
Art
The Topic Is Change, and Artist Robert Waters Sweats It Out
TOKYO — Robert Waters is a 40-year-old Canadian conceptual artist who was born and brought up near Toronto. Later he lived in Mexico City, where he explored the rituals, beliefs and symbols associated with colonial and post-colonial Mexico’s variety of Roman Catholicism.