Books
The Stories of 100 Midcentury Chairs
Midcentury modernism continues to inspire our desire to sit on something beautiful and fashionable.
Reviews
Art
Images from Boston’s Island of Exile
Mark Lamster's The Island That Nobody Knows explores Boston's Deer Island, a former prison and quarantine site that now houses the city's sewage plant.
Art
A Retrospective of Edgar Heap of Birds Rises High
With public art pieces, biting political, text-based work, and more intimate abstract paintings, this small exhibition illuminates Heap of Birds’s expansive career.
Books
Stan Brakhage Defines His Filmmaking Practice with Metaphors
Metaphors On Vision, Stan Brakhage’s first book, is highly peculiar for a fully fleshed out credo on cinema, for it contains prose poetry, scripts, script fragments, sketches, and letters.
Art
How August Sander and Otto Dix Recorded Fascism's Rise
Questions posed in a two-artist exhibition at Tate Liverpool reflect back on our own politically desperate era, often with eerie resonance.
Music
Tom Petty R.I.P.
For Tom Petty, rock 'n' roll means playing a good show for the crowd every night, every week, every month, indefinitely.
Art
John Hoyland’s Vibrant Austerity
Hoyland did not make calm or meditative paintings.
Art
Michael Berryhill Will Have You Seeing Faces
Berryhill has the ability to bring you to a place where you can never be sure of what you’re looking at.
Art
Diversity and Fraternity in 19th-Century French Prints
The Société des Aquafortistes encouraged not only the printmaking arts, but also a sense of camaraderie among its artists.
Art
Life Time: Bernadette Mayer's Memory
Poet Bernadette Mayer explores the intimate connections between photographic still lifes, color, emotions, and time.
Art
Artist-Built Environments to Rescue and Preserve
How much does the long-term care of such projects cost, and who should pay for it?
Art
Amedeo Modigliani’s Identity Politics
A half-Italian, half-French Sephardic Jew, Modigliani was a cultural mixed bag from the get-go.