Art
In Germany, a Curious Obsession with Cults, Icons, and Ethno-Nationalist Movements
KULT! Legends, stars and images, investigates how the Zeppelin legacy can be read through categories of cults that persist today.
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Art
Pope.L’s Conceptual Bottled Water Project Calls Attention to the Crisis in Flint
The famed social practice artist sells bottled water out of a Detroit gallery to highlight the continuing emergency.
Art
After Purging Her Possessions, an Artist Paints What Remained
In Possession, Jaye Schlesinger displays the small-scale oil paintings she made for each of the 380 objects she decided to keep.
Books
An Experimental Book Tests Our Ability to Perceive Multiple Mediums Simultaneously
Chilean electronic-music composer Nicolas Jaar's project feels like a cross between an art experience and solving a book of logic puzzles.
Film
A Czech Filmmaker Who Portrayed Eastern Bloc Life Through Women's Eyes
At Doclisboa, a comprehensive look at Vera Chytilová's incisive critiques of gender, family, and love.
Art
Luxurious, Terrifying Visions of Death in Renaissance Memento Mori
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is exhibiting memento mori objects from Renaissance Europe, often grotesquely designed to startle viewers into recognizing mortality.
Books
Revolutionizing the Erotics of Writing
For a writer whose life was so enmeshed with the experiences of being seen and talked about, Acker never truly established a fixed identity outside of language.
Art
The Incessant Art of Kazuko Miyamoto
The key to Miyamoto’s work is repetition that never becomes routine, no matter how mechanical the process might seem.
Art
The Exceptional Life and Political Art of Violet Oakley
Artistically, Oakley was the American counterpart of a British Pre-Raphaelite, but in terms of her social arrangements, she was decidedly a New Woman.
Art
The Past and Present of a Syrian-American Artist
Diana Al-Hadid is a cherished former student who is moving beyond talent into something much deeper and riskier, what Emerson called “the science of the real.”
Art
A Playful Take on the Still Life
Eliminating portraiture from her paintings and compressing the pictorial plane have allowed Holly Coulis to be more idiosyncratic, playful, convincing, and even funny.
Art
Swarming Geometry, Floral Colors, and Technological Space
Berran’s new paintings manifest an arresting, congenial gregariousness — while also showing their fangs.