Books
Jacob Katel’s A People’s History of Overtown collects interviews with the people who remember the neighborhood's golden years, before the expressway divided and ultimately decimated it.
Art
Opened in the fall of 2016, the Music Box Village is a gathering of artist-created architectural instruments.
Books
Coco Picard’s The Chronicles of Fortune is a story about learning how to grapple with the role of death in life.
Art
The centerpiece of John Stoney's exhibition at Pierogi is a series of precious gem and mineral displays drained of their natural colors and rendered in shades of gray.
Performance
Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble’s The Art of Luv 5: Swipe Right / ROKÉ Cupid, currently running at the Bushwick Starr, is the latest in a multimedia series exploring contemporary forms of desire.
Books
In 2015, the Japan-based photographer Everett Kennedy Brown documented the annual festival of Sōma, Fukushima, where hundreds of samurai don colorful armor and recreate a historic battle.
Art
In its third year, the Cappadox festival draws Turkish city-dwellers to Cappadocia for an outdoor romp.
Film
Bill Morrison’s newest work, Dawson City: Frozen Time, tells the story of an unlikely triumph for film preservation and history.
Art
A pair of exhibitions at Kavi Gupta gallery places the artist's paintings and sculptures in dialogue with arrangements of objects from his personal collections.
Art
For all the scholarly expertise employed, an exhibition at Almine Rech Gallery comes off as an exasperating magical negro narrative.
Art
Raúl Ortega Ayala's new exhibition at Proyectos Monclova includes a buffet based on a historical image of the restaurant atop the World Trade Center and a model of the Tower of Babel sculpted out of lard.
Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute dedicates its second solo show of a living designer to Rei Kawakubo, who started her daring clothing label Comme des Garçons in 1973.