Art
Rashaad Newsome Recenters Blackness in Art History
In sculpture and collage, Newsome explores agency, feminism, and what we think we're looking at.
Reviews
Performance
William Kentridge Incants Kurt Schwitters’s Iconic Dada Sound Poem
In a commissioned work for the Performa Biennial, Kentridge reimagines the Dada classic, reciting the nonsensical words while a montage of images flashes behind him at high speed.
Books
The Curious Histories of Colors, from Beige to Heliotrope
These stories about the origins of hues makes for a colorful read.
Art
Mining Mineral Structures with Watercolor and Sediment
Mineral geometries and natural forms inspire delicate artworks with fractal patterns and meticulous details.
Art
The Wartime Quilts Made by Men from Military Uniforms
The American Folk Art Museum in New York is exhibiting wartime quilts made by British soldiers from their uniforms in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Performance
A Surrealist Satire by Luis Buñuel Becomes a Grim Opera
The Metropolitan Opera's lone contemporary production this season is an adaptation of Buñuel's 1962 film about the Spanish aristocracy, The Exterminating Angel.
Art
A Gallery in a Truck Fuels Up on Anti-Patriarchal Art
The inaugural exhibition at Gas, a new Los Angeles gallery located in a box truck, offers a range of routes for making anti-fascist art.
Art
The Vibrant Palette of Raghubir Singh’s India
Singh did justice to the most layered and dense figurations of his Indian homeland.
Art
On the Road with Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud gets you to think about the folly and hubris of shaping the landscape to suit our needs.
Art
A Haitian Artist’s Mesmerizing Eyes
Didier William's slithery forms surge forth and recede within a sphere of visual gravitas — heaving, throbbing, breathing.
Books
Japan’s Tattoo Art, in Classic Woodblock Prints
Ukiyo-e artists produced woodblock prints incorporating depictions of tattooed bodies that told personal stories of their own.
Art
The Quietly Radical Paintings of George Schneeman
In a real and deep sense, Schneeman was an integral part of a historical moment taking place on the Lower East Side before gentrification.