Art
Kyle Staver's Historical Revisions
Without resorting to parody or cynicism, Staver undoes the tropes we associate with depictions of heroic and mythical.
Reviews
Art
Drawing the Essay
Colter Jacobsen is an artist whose methods, thought processes, aesthetic, and values accord with many poets and their work.
Music
Four Takes on the Cover Album
Cover albums reveal something about the evolution of shared taste and cultural memory.
Art
The Importance of Being Delacroix
The last great artist who was not a modernist, Delacroix synthesized very complex visual and verbal traditions in stunning works that open the way to modernism.
Art
Healing History’s Scars in the Art of Kader Attia
Kader Attia's new solo exhibition in Barcelona reminds us of the permanence of scars as well as our ability to heal.
Art
Contemporary Takes on the French Iconic Tragedy Bonjour Tristesse
A quiet exhibition conveys a unique vision on the outsider’s place in American society.
Books
American Art Critics, from Lucy Lippard to Darby English, Open Up in a Book of Interviews
In What It Means to Write About Art, famous critics put into print parts of their story they’ve never revealed to the public before.
Film
Garry Winogrand and the End of an Era
A complex portrait of the photographer emerges in the documentary All Things are Photographable directed by Sasha Waters Freyer.
Art
Dance with Digital Flamingos to Raise Awareness of Habitat Loss
Flarmingos is an ongoing augmented reality project, on Governors Island in New York, in which artist Kristin Lucas asks people to join digital flamingos in a dance of ecological awareness.
Books
Luminous Summer Scenes from Local American Fairs
Photographer Pamela Littky spent the summer of 2015 driving thousands of miles through 15 states to capture the American fair.
Art
The Soviet Art School that Cemented Suprematism’s Spot in History
For a brief moment, Soviet Russia looked like Camelot, and artists like Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevich, and El Lissitzky banded together to paint the way toward that utopian future with the People's Art School in modern-day Belarus.
Art
Disturbing Portraits of Girls Who Murdered Their Mothers Resist Moral Takeaways
Marlene McCarty's Murder Girls series does not give us the satisfaction of a neatly wrapped moral or a happy ending, nor does the artist attempt to rationalize the girls’ actions or to vilify them.