Art
Painting Cosmic Phenomena with Patterns of Subatomic Decay
Kysa Johnson represents nebula, neutron stars, and star clouds using the spiraling paths of the tiniest particles.
Reviews
Art
Carnal Humans and Bookish Animals Cohabitate in a Sprawling Video Installation
At Tyler Rollins Fine Art, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook’s complex, fragmented narrative features goats being read French philosophy and horses getting lectured on Plato.
Art
Hokusai’s “Great Wave” Was Only a Drop in the Bucket
Already fully accomplished by his fifties in a range of styles, from his sixties Katsushika Hokusai’s paintings and prints begin to accelerate in ambition and sophistication, leaping between styles and subjects.
Art
Seeing 1970s Italy Through Its Subversive Public Broadcasting Network
Francesco Vezzoli has delved into the archival material of Radiotelevisione Italiana, shaping a narrative of the culture, politics, and entertainment of the period.
Art
Five Centuries of Robotic Machines Reflect Human and Technological Change
Five centuries of robots, from clockwork monks to mechanical actors, are explored in a major exhibition at London's Science Museum.
Art
Algorithmic Art That You Can Blow On, Walk Through, or Dance Over
The inaugural exhibit at ARTECHOUSE, a new gallery in Washington, DC focused exclusively on digital art, is both dramatic and quietly poetic.
Art
Nari Ward Gets the G.O.A.T.
With his current show at Socrates Sculpture Park, Nari Ward takes the lawn ornament to some odd, hallucinatory places.
Art
A Museum Built Among Ancient Ruins Impels an Inward Gaze
In other museums, fragments of the past are isolated into forgotten history, but at Kolumba, they are part of a dynamic whole.
Art
Beverly Buchanan's Shack Sculptures Feel at Home in Detroit
An exhibition at David Klein Gallery brings together Buchanan's evocative shack constructions and pastel drawings.
Books
A Fragmented Portrait of the Last Male Northern White Rhino
The images in Giovanna Silva's new book are beautiful, but they’re simultaneously awash with heavy gloom.
Art
A Browser Game Recreates the Tedium of a 1990s Office Job
Pippin Barr's game It is as if you were doing work simulates the distractions and mundane tasks of the office, imagined for a future when work is replaced by machines.
Performance
A Shadow Puppet Performance Delves into Dementia and Post-Industrial Detroit
Performed at the Columbia Festival of the Arts, Manual Cinema’s The End of TV impressively incorporates shadow puppetry, live actors, video feeds, a live quintet, and lots of cutout paper props.