Art
The most powerful outsider artworks in Outliers and American Vanguard Art at the National Gallery of Art evoke ideals about all artists: the belief, for example, that they are distinct from non-artists.
Art
Kentucky-born artist Edward Melcarth dared to live as an openly homosexual man and did not hide his support for communism.
Art
For fans of Kelley and Shaw, Michigan Stories is a kind of origin story, a way to decipher the work of two multifaceted and prolific artists.
Art
Golub’s paintings cast the West’s Greco-Roman heritage not as a reflection of reason and order, but as a manifestation of its latent savagery.
Art
This VR interpretation of Hieronymus Bosch's “The Temptation of Saint Anthony” was the most fun I’ve ever had with a painting.
Art
An exhibition at Prospect 4 is showcasing magnificent Mardi Gras costumes, collaged tape cases made by Louis Armstrong, and more.
Art
These men and women are our dreams, manifesting a grace that the rest of us lack — a grace we expect to stay aloft, in the air.
Books
Ernst’s trailblazing “collage novels" employ the dreamlike conjunction — the fusion or juxtaposition of unlike elements whose collision makes perfect sense, in a free-associated way.
Art
The world's first climate change museum opens its inaugural exhibition, exploring polar ice through art at the Parsons School of Design in Manhattan.
Art
In Kerry Tribe's video we see both actors playing patients and medical students acting as though they were doctors, but the aim is for something real: empathy.
Film
The Museum of Modern Art is screening Ed Wood's 1959 cult classic, Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Art
Now on view at Regen Projects, Opie’s silent ode to the city is solely told with still, black-and-white images.