Art
Broadcasting Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — One of the first objects on display at the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. biennial is a Volkswagen Brasilia, named after the Brazilian capital.
Review
Art
Two Exhibitions Capture Life in the Caucasus
TBILISI, Georgia — This week in Tbilisi, there are two exhibitions worth checking out. They make a nice pairing for an afternoon, as the first deals with public memory while the second is a very intimate examination of hidden experience. Both are singular in that they reflect life in the Caucasus re
Music
Fagen's Critical Catalogue (July 2014, Part 2)
In part 2 of this month, reviews of Lana Del Rey, Sam Smith, Indian Ocean, and Kitten.
Film
Now on Film: The Mysterious Healing Power of Emery Blagdon’s Art
Yesterday evening’s nationwide PBS broadcast of Kelly Rush’s new documentary short, Emery Blagdon & His Healing Machine, served as a reminder of just what it is that distinguishes the lives and careers of the most exemplary outsider artists.
Books
Man of Letters: Ray Johnson Art in Motion
While the increased availability of Ray Johnson’s letters, notes, and statements subtilizes our understanding of this legendarily well-connected yet enigmatic artist, his flattened logorrheia is also just fun to read.
Books
Dispatches from the Gateways to Death Valley
Two rural communities have ominously declared themselves the "Gateway to Death Valley" — Baker, California and Beatty, Nevada — each isolated as the last stop before miles of harsh landscape.
Art
Revisiting a Master of Found Footage
A known face at film archives around the world, Austrian filmmaker and architect Gustav Deutsch is one of found footage’s most astute and assiduous artists.
Art
Minor White’s Vulnerability
LOS ANGELES — Minor White’s photographs offer a portrait of a life lived in collaboration with the natural world, other people, and the great beyond. This collection of crisp photographs make up the retrospective Manifestations of the Spirit.
Books
Portraits of America's New Nomads
There is a loose tribe living at nature's margins in the United States, slaughtering goats raised by hand at Idaho's Lost River and picking cherries growing wild in California's Marble Mountain Wilderness.
Art
Malevich in his Milieu
LONDON — The Tate Modern’s Malevich: Revolutionary of Russian Art exhibition explores the career of Kazimir Malevich, presenting a complete image of the painter, sculptor, teacher, and revolutionary member of the early Soviet avant-garde, whose trajectory as an innovative artist mirrored the tumultu
Art
Making Art Feel at Home
The two rooms of Jason McCoy Gallery currently feature works spanning a wide variety of styles and mediums — from functional design objects, such as wallpaper and stools, to charcoal drawings and fine art textiles — for the group show Domesticity.
Art
How a Turn-of-the-Century Painter Influenced Military Camouflage
The newest exhibition at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York examines the influence of nature on military camouflage.