Performance
Dancing Across Borders, Blurring the Line Between Hunter and Hunted
A dance company based both in Ramallah and New York City finds fertile ground for experiment working across borders.
Reviews
Art
The Pattern and Decoration Zeitgeist
Now, again — reacting to what seems like art’s relentless address of injustices, and news of the day — exhibitions reveal a populist engagement with work that has decided to be happy and make pretty.
Art
The Erotically Charged Technophilia of Cyberpunk Paintings
The late Cuban artist Agustin Fernandez created a gloomy, gritty body of works that imagine a hyper-sexed, electronic corporeality.
Books
A Photographic Journey Across Iceland in Search of Magic
Spanish photographer Bego Antón traveled across Iceland, visiting the people who see and live with the country's magical creatures.
Art
The Clever Concrete Poetry of a Benedictine Monk
Dom Sylvester Houédard, friends with the beatniks, littered his texts with references to god and prayer, and had a peculiar sense of humor.
Books
Lorna Simpson’s Glowing Collages of Women and Heads of Hair
The artist's collages feature portraits of women cut from advertisements, their tresses painted and collaged into pools of color that spread onto the page like oil spills.
Art
A Project Casts Artists and Their Mentors as Children and Parents
For Parent Project, Seamus Gallagher and two of his cohort at the College for Creative Studies created works by following the instructions of mentors and role models.
Art
Upending Clichés About Nationhood, Asylum, and Living Through War
An exhibition in Chiang Mai, Thailand contends with the pain and despair of life washed in economic disparity, genocide, war, and the complexities of nationhood.
Books
Gripping Nocturnal Views of Detroit Devoid of Life
Dave Jordano's new book collects more than 100 of his startling, brilliant nighttime photographs of his hometown.
Performance
A Composer's Obsession Becomes an Underwater Wonder
Watching puppeteer Basil Twist’s Symphonie Fantastique is like experiencing an extreme episode of synesthesia.
Art
A Sculptor Cuts an Uncanny Figure
Everything in the work of sculptor Sarah Peters is an act of reimagining and melding together disparate sources into something that becomes curiouser and curiouser.
Art
Terry Winters's Inspired Rejections
Winters’s painting technique argues against gestural abstraction’s sweeping structures and minimalism’s solid-color surfaces.