Art
Robert Colescott’s Frank Snapshots of Racism and Misogyny in the US
Colescott reached the heights of a master painter, becoming one of the first prominent artists to embed black bodies and social critique into the art historical canon.
Reviews
Art
The Opulent and Cosmopolitan Legacy of Iran's Qajar Dynasty
An exhibition at the Louvre-Lens gathers 19th-century Persian artworks, design objects, fashion, photos, and more, many of them on view outside Tehran for the first time.
Books
Mapping Chicago’s Concrete and Brutalist Buildings
For a new map published by Blue Crow Media, Chicago-based architect Iker Gil has selected over 50 examples of concrete and Brutalist buildings across the city and its suburbs to highlight.
Art
Uncanny Renderings of Art History’s Famous Self-Portraits
Allan Rubin transforms his artistic heroes into three-dimensional sculptures made from upcycled tin cans.
Art
Over Two Millennia of Music Play Out Across the Metropolitan Museum's New Instrument Galleries
The newly reopened galleries combine disparate instruments the world over, grouping them by time period and type, rather than dividing them into the cultures by which they were created.
Music
Wendy's Serves Up a Beefy Mixtape
The fast food chain's mixtape We Beefin? explores an uncharted outreach strategy.
Art
Matthew Wong’s Hallucinatory Pilgrimages
Wong proceeds mark by mark without knowing in advance what will happen or where he will go.
Art
Richard Hull’s Hall of Mirrors
Hull’s “stolen portraits” are funny, weird, seductive, robust, mysterious, saucy, and nearly impossible to decipher.
Books
Poetry from the Picket Line
Two poets, veterans of university unionization campaigns, chart the growing crisis of the new intellectual working class
Art
From the Green Market to the Gallery Wall
Karin Sander’s Kitchen Pieces draw your attention to the rhythmic ridges of an acorn squash, the bumpy peel of an orange, and the spiky surface of a yellow dragon fruit.
Art
How Raoul Hausmann Went From Dada Provocateur to Sensual and Earnest Photographer
For Hausmann, who was one of the founders of Berlin Dada, realist nature photography became a preferred means of his post-Dada expression, picked up during his sojourns to the North Sea and Baltic coasts in the early 1930s.
Art
Beauty and Disunity in Two Visions of the United States
The work of Teresita Fernandez and Nari Ward presents two contradictory views of the United States — one of the most hopeful, and one of the least.