Art
An Artist Invites Visitors to Remake Historical Protest Signs
At Hunter East Harlem Gallery, Jason Lazarus demonstrates how our political needs persist over time.
Reviews
Books
The Physics of Race, History, and Everyday Life
Samiya Bashir's poems attempt to describe with scientific precision the position of the black body in American culture.
Art
Portrait of a Young Artist, from New York to Vietnam and Back
The challenge for younger artists — particularly ones of color like Tammy Nguyen — is this: do you accommodate yourself to the marketplace, or do you find another way?
Music
Freedom, Walt Whitman, and Phish
Phish connects with a visionary tradition in America reaching back to the expansive Walt Whitman and the soulful Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Art
Making Art from a City's Isolation
At Winnipeg's Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, art acts as a kind of magnifying glass, exposing the city's unconventional and, at times, undesirable aspects.
Art
Get a Call from a New York City Statue
The Talking Statues project gives 35 public monuments in New York City a voice, from Balto the dog to George Washington in Union Square.
Art
A Photographer Captures Chilean Street Life, from the Hustlers to the Homeless
In a retrospective in the south of France, Paz Errázuriz's kaleidoscopic vision encompasses all aspects of life in Santiago.
Books
A Photographic Tribute to Hokusai’s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
In a new book, Raoul Ries uses his camera to weave together a new, 21st-century narrative of the mountain.
Books
Scathing Comics About the Crisis of Being Jewish Today
In his new book Diaspora Boy, Eli Valley analyzes the contradictions lodged within the heart of Zionist ideology and how they're an indictment of American Jews.
Art
Erotic Art at the Intersection of Queer and Chicanx Identities
The works in Queerly Tèhuäntin | Cuir Us bring together a community's wide-ranging self-representations, from macabre self-portraits to Chicana punk screenprints.
Art
Recovering the Philosophy Chamber, Harvard's Enlightenment-Era Teaching Cabinet
The small chamber was at the heart of intellectual life in New England from 1766 to 1820, and then it all but disappeared.
Art
The Somberness of 19th-Century Wedding Portrait Photos
An exhibition at Ricco/Maresca Gallery brings together 100 cabinet card portrait photos of newlyweds and a collection of vintage wedding cake toppers.