Books
The Outdated Architecture of Parliaments Around the World
A book by XML is the first to provide a comparative overview of different countries' parliament spaces.
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Art
An Itinerant Museum Picks Apart the Language of Dehumanization
The Museum of Nonhumanity, on view at the Nordic Biennial, looks at the ways language shapes "othering."
Art
A Vision of US Immigration Beyond the Melting Pot
At the Queens Museum, Ronny Quevedo uses the rules of sports as metaphors for the boundaries drawn in public space.
Art
The Black American Women Who Made Their Own Art World
We Wanted a Revolution at the Brooklyn Museum tracks the shape-shifting radicalism of black women artists, authors, filmmakers, dancers, gallerists, and public figures between 1965 and 1985.
Books
Self-Immolator: Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s Meadow Slasher
In in his new book of poems, Joshua Marie Wilkinson cuts, nicks, and rips the pastoral to achieve terrors both startling and beautiful.
Art
Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo Mourn the Fate of Immigrants
We are intent on poisoning the earth one way or another. Misrach is determined to document that poisoning without looking away, while Galindo wants to transform the results of that venom into a salve.
Art
A Second Look at Teju Cole
Cole’s photographs are sensitive to the brutal dying that is going on everywhere. He knows that looking is not innocent, and that it will never be.
Books
The Future Seen Through a Fragmented Past
Edward McPherson's collected essays in The History of the Future are a literary kitchen sink in which no event or issue appears more important or relevant than any other.
Books
Just Say No: Politics and Refusal in '80s-Inspired Literature
In the wake of the 2016 presidential campaign, it feels eerily prescient to read Lauren Levin’s critique of Reagan-era politics.
Art
The Vertigo of Sturtevant
The artist’s presence in her current one-woman survey at Gavin Brown's Enterprise is like a ghost in the machine.
Art
What Does It Mean to Make Art in the South Asian Diaspora?
This summer exhibition at the Asia Society in New York explores artists of the South Asian diaspora and the ideas and issues that unify their work.
Art
Capturing Fragments of Identity
A group show at Westbeth Gallery examines how identities are formed, transmuted, distorted, and displayed in the social sphere.