Books
An Illustrated Portrait of Lolita Fashion
Jane Mai and An Nguyen's So Pretty/Very Rotten attempts to give a broader sociological context to this subculture that quietly began in the Tokyo district of Harajuku in the 1970s.
Reviews
Art
The Museum of Capitalism Isn’t Buying Our Prevailing Economic Model
Museum of Capitalism, a pop-up exhibition in Oakland presenting itself as a fully functioning museum, attempts to shift our perspective and give viewers a bird’s-eye view of capitalism.
Music
Synthesizer Gloss and Bubblefunk Guitar
With their new album After Laughter, Paramore’s rebel yells have morphed into breezy hooks.
Art
Richard Brown Lethem's Painted Afflictions
"Throughout his career, he has freely mixed the figurative with the abstract, unwilling to align himself with any school or -ism."
Books
Mind Music: Reading Clark Coolidge
Jack Kerouac’s writing opened up the literary horizons for Coolidge — horizons where a musician’s intuition and technique could be expressed in writing and thinking.
Art
These Four Painters Won't Be Ignored Any Longer
A new exhibition tells us what we’ve been missing in the work of Marina Adams, Paul Feeley, Joanna Pousette-Dart, and Leon Polk Smith.
Art
Lezley Saar’s Melancholic Poetics of Identity
For decades, Saar has explored the emotional conflict underlying identity from the perspective of a biracial woman.
Art
Lezley Saar’s Melancholic Poetics of Identity
For decades, Saar has explored the emotional conflict underlying identity from the perspective of a biracial woman.
Art
The Joys and Terrors of an Outsider Artist
While Susan Te Kahurangi King has never consciously worked in or against a fine art tradition, her work is surely original.
Art
The Joys and Terrors of an Outsider Artist
While Susan Te Kahurangi King has never consciously worked in or against a fine art tradition, her work is surely original.
Art
Walking on Water at Skulptur Projekte Münster
Ayse Erkmen’s water bridge across Münster’s harbor is a singular mesh of sculpture, performance art, Land Art, and perhaps painting, too.
Art
Walking on Water at Skulptur Projekte Münster
Ayse Erkmen’s water bridge across Münster’s harbor is a singular mesh of sculpture, performance art, Land Art, and perhaps painting, too.