Art
The Strange Eroticism of Fishermen Caressing Dying Fish
Jonathas de Andrade's short film "O Peixe" mimics the style of anthropological documentaries to capture a made-up fishing custom in northeast Brazil.
Reviews
Art
Envisioning Democratic Design at a French Biennial
A visit to the 2017 Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne offers an important reminder that we're surrounded by designs created to encourage some behaviors and obstruct others.
Art
The Violence of the 2017 Whitney Biennial
One of the themes of this year's Whitney Biennial appears to be violence, and not every artist has the ability to transform it into a successful work of art.
Art
The Cautionary Tales of Dead Birds Fashioned from Textiles
Tamara Kostianovsky's exhibition at Y Gallery features sculptures of butchered fowl made from salvaged fabric.
Art
Artists Sift Through Archives for Memories of Miami
For this exhibition, artists searched through home videos, letters, documents, and images, finding physical ephemera and strange histories with which to create new work.
Art
Tour New York’s Gilded Age Architecture with a New Museum App
“A Walk Through Gilded NY” is an audio and visual tour through the past and present of the city’s turn-of-the-century architecture.
Art
Memorial Portraits Made with the Subjects’ Ashes
After the loss of her father and a close friend, Heide Hatry began making portraits where her subjects' faces are delicately recreated with their own cremated remains.
Art
The Graphic Idealism of the 1970s US Radical Left
An exhibition at the Interference Archive creates the feeling of wandering around an old curiosity shop where the stock is radical politics.
Books
The Unflinching Sensuality of Ren Hang's Photographs
The young artist, who died last month at age 29, is the subject of a new monograph from TASCHEN.
Music
Jens Lekman Cheers Up
All sad singer-songwriters are alike, but Jens Lekman is an exception.
Art
Pattern Recognition: Merion Estes Brings New Life to an Old World
Merion Estes has developed works on paper and fabric that incorporate beautifully abstract images along with references principally to Japanese and Chinese art, but the art of other countries is evident as well.
Performance
Revising on the Fly: Adjua Greaves in Performance
In my many years of attending poetry readings, I’ve never encountered a performance technique quite like Greaves’ revisions.