Art
Howardena Pindell Gets Her First Major Museum Survey
A survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago illustrates how the artist shifted from formalist painting to personal, political art.
Reviews
Music
Four Bands on Sex, Politics, and the Weather
New albums by Rhye, Physically Sick, Toni Braxton, and Johnny Jewel share a warped relationship to their ostensible themes.
Art
Sean Sullivan's Recordings of Sounds and Colors
Inspired by Dada, Sullivan has transformed its dark, destructive impulses into something else.
Art
Steve DiBenedetto’s Playground of Paint
DiBenedetto is exploring a realm where figuration and abstraction have collapsed, and the body and the paint are inseparable.
Art
Danh Vo's Elegy for Democracy
Drawing on many genres and styles, Vo meditates on history, freedom, love, faith, and death.
Art
Photographers Among the Trees, from Steichen to Bae Bien-U
An exhibition at London's V&A captures the dance in life’s stillness and the stillness in life’s dance.
Art
Joe Overstreet, Painter as Aesthetic Nomad
Overstreet keeps his references to his African-American heritage and Native American influences oblique.
Art
Picture Yourself at the Museum of Selfies
Selfies — which have been critiqued as symbols of narcissism and celebrated as examples of defiant self-representation — are now receiving the museum treatment.
Film
The Strange and Artful Worlds of A Wrinkle in Time
Ava DuVernay's sci-fi blockbuster follows its characters from a verdant world right out of a Hudson River School painting to a glowing space worthy of James Turrell.
Art
Pushing the Limits of NYC's Periphery at the Southeast Queens Biennial
The inaugural biennial questions how we define the city margins by presenting the work of artists who call the eastern edge of New York City’s largest borough home.
Art
A Korean American Artist Who Grappled with Losing Her Voice and Roots
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's personal experience of migration would inform the prodigious output of her art and writing in the 1970s and early '80s.
Performance
Mozart Hits the Coney Island Boardwalk in Remix of Così fan tutte
The Met's new production of Così fan tutte stages the comic opera at a Coney Island-style amusement park circa the 1950s.