Books
In all of his poems, you feel Felsenthal finding his way from word to word and from line to line: he is not trying to tell a story or replay an anecdote so much as go where the words and phrases, sounds and meanings, lead him.
Art
Instead of thinking of Acheson’s works as paintings, I have come to think of them as battered talismans, unfinished letters, and broken odes to his heroes, many of whom are artists.
Art
Dolci (1616-1686), like Michelangelo and Botticelli 150 years before him, worked in Florence in the employ of the Medici family.
Art
Beginning around 2012, Ruggeri’s work underwent a shift, then an overhaul, then something like a transformation.
Art
Tyler not only believes that his art-making prowess is a gift from God, and that he is merely the vehicle through which such a divine gift must be dutifully expressed, but he also regards his drawn or painted “shapes” as somehow alive.
Art
This year, the Whitney Biennial includes plenty of painting. And — for the most part — the painting is on message. It’s eccentric figuration with political content.
Art
In Next of Kin at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, artist Christina Seely repurposes natural history specimens for an emotional exhibition about animal extinction.
Books
Shannon Taggart started photographing the mediums of Lily Dale in 2001, and for 16 years after has documented the séances and practices of modern Spiritualism.
Art
In Adrienne Elise Tarver's installation at Victori + Mo, the viewer is compelled to play the role of a voyeur peering through a jungle canopy.
Art
'State of the World' unfolds a complex dialogue about the symbolic, physical, conceptual, and material nature of the flag.
Art
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard explores centuries of weapons from around the world that double as works of art.
Books
The new book Take That, Adolf! compiles classic comic book covers that show how American superheroes were marshaled into service during World War II.