Books
The Arrest of a Turkish Photographer in the Encroaching Night
Erdoğan’s book Control depicts an imaginary night out in Gazi, one of the most dangerous districts of Istanbul, commonly viewed as an autonomous zone of underground activity.
Reviews
Film
Agnès Varda and JR Take a Trippy, Twee Road Trip
Faces Places is a kind of road movie in which two artists who are electric on screen, one 34 years old and the other 88, stop at villages to talk to and take photos of people in the French provinces.
Performance
What Roberto Bolaño Can Teach Us About Making Art Under Fascism
A new stage adaptation of Bolaño's 1993 novel Distant Star juxtaposes the lofty aspirations and dire realities of poets living through Chile's 1973 coup.
Art
Getting Comfortable with Sexy and Silly Art
SEX, an exhibition at Chicago's Lawrence & Clark gallery, challenged me to reckon with the cultural inheritance of my Taiwanese American upbringing.
Art
Skill Wins Over Vision at the Art Students League Instructors’ Exhibition
Founded in 1875, the Art Students League of New York mounts an annual exhibition of art by their instructors, so we took a look.
Art
Art Amid Governors Island's Architectural Decay
In its 10th edition, the Governors Island Art Fair in New York expands its installations into 1920s barracks.
Art
Let Other Visitors' Stories Guide You Through Brooklyn Bridge Park
"HEAR THEIR THERE HERE" created by Geoff Sobelle for St. Ann’s Warehouse is a site-specific sonic experience for Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Art
A Haunting Game of Survival Takes You to a Space Station in 2088
Fullbright's new theater-inspired game Tacoma immerses players in a space station haunted by the ghosts of its missing crew.
Art
Paintings That Manage to Focus Our Divided Attentions
How can one static image begin to capture lived experience? Njideka Akunyili Crosby answers this question with astonishing polish and grace.
Art
The Pleasures of Slow Paintings
These paintings are what the artist Suzan Frecon calls “slow,” meaning that they reveal themselves quietly over time.
Art
Ruth Asawa, a Pioneer of Necessity
Asawa was a woman of Japanese ancestry making art in the years after World War II, which was a double whammy.
Art
Russell Maltz's Hard-Hat Formalism
Maltz sees a load of cinderblocks as a legitimate painting substrate — even after it's broken down and mortared together as the wall of an office building.