Books
A Graphic Novel in the Form of a Monster-Obsessed Child’s Notebook
In My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Emil Ferris avoids the strictures of any one genre, following the meandering mind of a 10-year-old obsessed with movie monsters.
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Art
Participatory Stool Making, Reclaimed Materials, and More at Collective Design Fair
Opening today, the 2017 edition of the fair features furniture, lighting fixtures, functional design, and photography from almost 30 international exhibitors.
Books
A New Account of Robert Lowell’s Mania Risks Glorifying It
Clinical psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison's Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire intimately details the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's mental illness and how it shaped his poetic output.
Art
Passing Through Portal, an Unpretentious Art Fair in Soho
Now in its second edition, the new fair from nonprofit 4heads feels like a big group show, with the attendant mix in quality.
Art
A Stained-Glass World Where Women Are Worshipped
Women are everywhere in Paula Wilson’s art, which cobbles together fragmented images like shards of stained glass.
Art
Enigmatic Sculptures of Dangerous Embraces
Entang Wiharso’s solo exhibition at Marc Straus Gallery is filled with nightmarish allegories and provocative entanglements.
Art
Adam Pendleton Examines the Multiplicity of Blackness
The artist's largest solo exhibition to date explores blackness as a color, an idea, an identity, a method, and a political movement.
Art
A Show of Lebanese Art Suffused with the Longing of Exile
At Angela Meleca Gallery, five contemporary Lebanese artists consider their relationships to their home country.
Books
The Designs of Allan Wexler, a “Radical Deconstructor of Habitation”
A new book celebrates the artist’s unique vision, featuring more than 200 projects he has conceived since the 1980s.
Books
An Illustrated 19th-Century Japanese Travelogue of Egypt
The image of Egypt as conceived by innovative Japanese publisher Takejirō Hasegawa was well outside the dominant paradigm and thus startling to Western eyes.
Art
The Color Palette of Materialism, from Rose Gold iPhones to Millennial Pink Shopping Bags
In her latest exhibition, Sara Cwynar probes our complicated relationship with image-saturated advertising.
Art
A Retrospective of a Forgotten 1930s Photographer of Famous Faces
The Philbrook Museum is reconstructing the career of modernist photographer Lusha Nelson, whose life was cut short by an untimely death.