Books
Vivian Maier, the Photographer Who Wanted to Go Unobserved
Maier didn’t want people to know where she lived, and often lied about her personal history.
Reviews
Art
Kinetic Sculptures Animate US History
John Buck’s ambitious kinetic installations are excoriating indictments of the current political administration.
Art
The Raging Optimism of Sally Saul
Sally Saul makes sculptures that are funny, sweet, and tender – states we are not likely to encounter in art or even in life.
Art
A Watery World Turned Upside Down
Tom Burckhardt’s “STUDIO FLOOD” is a tour de force artwork with a willfully scruffy, DIY look.
Music
LCD Soundsystem Looks in the Mirror, Again
LCD Soundsystem's American Dream is a passably punkoid rock album, fiery in places, elsewhere clunky.
Performance
A Dance Crosses Borders, from the Congo to the Stars
Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula and American writer and director Annie Dorsen contemplate storytelling at the Crossing the Line Festival.
Art
The Unknowable Ray Johnson
When Ray Johnson killed himself at the age of 67, the air of mystery surrounding his personality, life, and art only thickened.
Art
Brenda Goodman Cuts Deep
Goodman’s recent work is distressing, captivating, and weirdly funny.
Art
Imagining the Uncanny Life of a Sculptor’s “Awkward Creatures”
R.M. Fischer's lamp sculptures are like an uncanny assembly of anthropomorphic creatures that might abruptly move on their own.
Art
You're a Medici. Can You Support the Renaissance's Best Artists, or Will You Be Exiled?
ARTé: Mecenas from Triseum is a game on the economies of art, set in the tumultuous Italian Renaissance, in which you are a Medici patron.
Art
Tensions Over Untapped Oil Run Just Beneath the Surface at a Norwegian Art Festival
The Lofoten International Art Festival is in the only part of Norway where drilling for oil is not currently permitted, but that could change.
Art
Visitors Were Invited to Curate a Museum of Modern Nature and Here’s What Sprouted
The Wellcome Collection's Museum of Modern Nature is a crowdsourced reflection on our personal relationships to the natural world in the 21st century.