Art
Updating Ruskin’s Sublime Landscape in the Age of the Anthropocene
New York University's Grey Gallery takes on the concept of the sublime in contemporary landscape art.
Reviews
Art
Ominous and Uplifting Paintings that Dance with Death
Emilia Olsen uses the Death and the Maiden allegory as a provocative metaphor for artistic sustenance and renewal.
Performance
Nick Cave Lets Go in a Performance that Is Part Confession, Part Celebration
In “The Let Go” at the Park Avenue Armory, the artist explores jubilation washed with spectacle and an undertow of anguish.
Art
Immigrant Stories Dock at Governors Island in Two Exhibitions
Artists in both exhibitions were inspired by the harbor itself and how it has been a witness to immigrant narratives.
Art
How Medieval Artists Used Monsters as Propaganda
In Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders, the Morgan Library & Museum in New York is exhibiting 70 examples of the monstrous in the Middle Ages.
Books
Poet as a Super Thinker
Maged Zaher's poems the emphasize the absurdity of love in the time of late-capitalism.
Books
Poet as a Super Thinker
Maged Zaher's poems the emphasize the absurdity of love in the time of late-capitalism.
Books
One More Thing I Want to Say about Christopher Middleton
A member of the generation of poets that includes John Ashbery and Robert Creeley, Middleton wrote in many styles, from the classifiable to the unclassifiable.
Books
One More Thing I Want to Say about Christopher Middleton
A member of the generation of poets that includes John Ashbery and Robert Creeley, Middleton wrote in many styles, from the classifiable to the unclassifiable.
Art
Beuford Smith’s History Lesson
In his photographs, Smith delves into America's historically volatile relationships between races without spelling anything out.
Art
Beuford Smith’s History Lesson
In his photographs, Smith delves into America's historically volatile relationships between races without spelling anything out.
Music
The Precision Rap of Blocboy JB
Blocboy JB’s new mixtape, Simi, is the most meticulous demonstration of formal rigor hip-hop fans will likely hear all year.