Art
Paintings that Ponder Death and Teem with Life
The Cuban artist Carlos Alfonzo had always contemplated the complexities of life and its end, even before he was diagnosed with AIDS in 1990.
Reviews
Art
A Painter Illustrates the Charm and Tragedy of the American Dream
Esther Pearl Watson's personal paintings depict the life and adventures of a family rich in dreams but perpetually strapped for cash.
Art
Encountering Christo’s Massive Sculpture on the Serpentine Lake
Christo's giant floating sculpture, "The London Mastaba," sits on the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park as tourists on paddle boats circle around.
Art
How Our Conversations Around Mixed-Race Identity Have Evolved in the 21st Century
A project illustrates how the explosion of the internet has allowed for a more involved, varied, and purposeful construction of one's identity.
Music
A Talking Heads Album, Forty Years Later
More Songs About Buildings and Food, a concept album about late capitalism, speaks with disarming directness to the current political moment.
Books
Sweet, Gritty, Impossible Naples
The other great centers of the Italian art world – Florence, Rome, and Venice – have modernized; Naples mostly has not.
Books
Cuba at the Cusp
The images that foreshadow the turmoil of the Cuban Revolution jar you back to the precariousness of our times.
Art
Revisiting the Legacy of Women at Black Mountain College
The school's loosely structured pedagogical model allowed women to play vital roles throughout Black Mountain's brief history.
Art
Seeing Ourselves in Sculpture
Richard Nonas's sculptures alert each of us to the specificity of being — in a specific time and a specific place.
Art
Hand-Copying the Constitution and Other Responses to Trump
Oh, What a World! What a World! brings together a diverse range of artists’ reactions to the anxiety gripping the nation.
Art
Mining the Myths and Mysteries of Poison Over the Centuries
An exhibition takes an immersive, highly interactive look at poison as medicine, killer, and literary device.
Film
The Swiss Art Collector Who Helped Expose Chinese Contemporary Art to the World
The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg traces how Sigg accumulated his massive and influential collection, a record of Chinese contemporary art of the last three decades.