Art
A Design Firm That’s Quietly Permeated Pop Culture
At the Henry Ford museum, an exhibition on House Industries conveys the invisible yet powerful reach of design.
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Art
Sarah Lucas Squashes Rodin’s Idealism
At the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, an exhibition marking the centennial of Rodin's death juxtaposes his work with Sarah Lucas's materially soft but conceptually tough sculptures.
Art
A History of Science Fiction’s Future Visions
The Barbican Centre's Into the Unknown explores science fiction as a cultural force, and how it channels our most optimistic and dystopian projections about the future.
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Rediscovering the Fin-de-siècle Austrian Artist Who Anticipated Expressionism
The first US retrospective of the works of Richard Gerstl provides a detailed profile of the painter who is known more for his tempestuous personality and his tragic death than for his artistic innovations.
Art
Full House: Artists from Latin America Imagine Home
An exhibition at LACMA offers open dialogue about how the concept of home is understood and experienced.
Art
Teju Cole Has Not Stopped Looking or Thinking
Combining text and photographs, Cole seeks a combination of intuition, context, and moral intelligence.
Art
In Praise of Shadow, Color, and Light
Xuan Chen likens the viewer’s experience of her painted constructions to “exploring a newly acquired digital device,” but they have much more staying power than that.
Art
John O'Reilly's Radical Photomontages
John O'Reilly's work reflects and refracts the history of art, as well as the history of looking, scanning, and reading an image.
Music
K-Pop Conquers the World
I.U., Day6, Ignito, and Lovelyz release new albums that run from exhausting to simply perfect.
Art
The Heavy Metal Symbolism of the Salon Rose+Croix
A show of Symbolist paintings at the Guggenheim makes it clear that 19th-century France had an infinitely more interesting fin-de-siècle flip-out than we did in the 20th.
Performance
Placing Your Trust in the Black Male Body
In a performance at Fergus McCaffrey gallery, Clifford Owens used his body as an instrument to propel others not to fear, but to trust.
Art
Michel Houellebecq's Cynicism Persists in His Photographs
For his US gallery debut, Michel Houellebecq presents an exhibition which amounts to a theory attempting to explain the dysfunction of French society.