Art
Tend to Your Goats as the Apocalypse Approaches in This Meditative Game
Where The Goats Are starts as an idyllic farming game, but the horrors of the post-apocalyptic setting can't be ignored.
Reviews
Art
Artist Turns Police Cruiser into a Tribute to Law & Order Detective Lennie Briscoe
For "ORBACH1," Brandon Bird transformed a formerly black 2008 police cruiser found on Craigslist into an airbrushed rolling masterpiece commemorating his hero.
Art
What We Lose and Gain in Recreating Antiquities
In his exhibition at at Galeria Mascota, Miguel Angel Salazar revives a cenotaph, showing that it's both easier than ever to rewrite history, and more difficult to erase it.
Art
A Mobile Museum Brings Miniature Art to Rural Vermont
Matt Neckers’s Mobile Museum is a mimic which can also be read as a caricature and critique of the modern museum’s banality.
Film
Can a Tiny Tuscan Town Keep Its "Poor Theater" Alive?
In the documentary Spettacolo, the people of Monticchiello see art as a tool to promote populism.
Art
Found Object Sculptures that Spell Out an Urgent Environmental Message
At MASS MoCA, sculptures by Lonnie Holley and Dawn DeDeaux reflect the environmental and political state of the earth today.
Art
In London's Reopened Garden Museum, Horticulture History Is Told Among Tombs
The Garden Museum in London has reopened, showcase a recreation of a 17th-century curiosity cabinet, horticultural art, and the tombs of the deconsecrated church in which it's located.
Art
The Portraiture of Paul Cézanne
Portraits by Cézanne at the Musée d’Orsay includes 60 psychologically loaded canvases from all periods of the artist’s career.
Art
A Mexican Metalworker's Colossal Jewelry for the Statue of Liberty
Ana Pellicer used traditional copper jewelry techniques from the Mexican state of Michoacan, then makes her pieces contemporary by playing with scale.
Books
Considering the Clarity of X-ray Photography
Ultimately, in the collection of images, one can see the painter and contemporary image maker that is Miller vying against the Miller who is more sentimental.
Art
Parsing the Plastic Products of Consumerism at Skulptur Projekte Münster
In this edition of the German decennial for public art, one wonders whether Skulptur Projekte has conquered the Westphalian establishment, or the establishment has co-opted Skulptur Projekte.
Art
A Photographer’s Donation to a Museum Honors Its Security Guards
Abelardo Morell's photographic map of Henry David Thoreau's journals was gifted to the Morgan Library & Museum in honor of its security guards.