Books
An Artist Who Fantasized as a Way to Survive
A self-taught draftsman and fantastical storyteller, Renaldo Kuhler’s life and fashion sense were as eccentric as his art.
Reviews
Art
Dale Chihuly’s Road Not Taken
Chihuly may be a nature sculptor but his shiny maximalist aesthetic is far from naturalistic.
Art
A Painter’s Theater of Destitution
The fifteen realist paintings in Linden Frederick: Night Stories take us on a tour of small-town Maine.
Art
The Politics of Adversity in Pope.L’s Flint Water Project
Flint Water Project politicizes the readymade, positing the bottles as symbols of gross negligence and misconduct on the part of city and state officials, and the dire consequences.
Film
In Ken Burns's Vietnam War Documentary, Claims of Objectivity Obscure Patriotic Bias
By accepting patriotic doctrine even as it claims to present all sides, the epic documentary takes some slippery liberties with truth and history.
Art
A Virtual Project Connects Visitors to Holocaust Survivors and Their Stories
New Dimensions in Testimony invites visitors to the Museum of Jewish Heritage to have a virtual conversation with a Holocaust survivor.
Art
Playing with the Privilege to Make Art About Anything
Dominique Duroseau's exhibition shows us what black bodies look like when "glamoured" by a racist imagination.
Books
A Salute to North Korea's Dated But Dependable Airline
North Korea's Air Koryo may not fly many places, but the state-owned airline is definitely a trip back in time.
Performance
Ryan McNamara’s Populist Approach to Dance Falls Short at the Guggenheim
Commedia dell’arte packed less punch, in part because of the formal space of the Guggenheim and McNamara’s status as an art-world darling.
Art
The Lovingly Crafted Horror of American Haunted Houses
Misty Keasler explored 13 haunted houses across the United States, photographing their blood-spattered interiors and dark architecture of terror.
Art
An Augmented Reality Coral Reef Thrives or Dies by Your Tweets
The White Noise augmented reality installation visualizes the online conversations we have around consumption and conservation.
Performance
Contemporary Ballet Adventures with Trevor Paglen, Science Fiction, and More
Drawing inspiration from other arts, BalletCollective plumbs the connections between visual, literary, and choreographic forms.