Art
A Pair of Curatorial Provocateurs Gets an Improbable Museum Survey
Triple Candie were, depending whom you ask, either subversive and brilliant or irrationally misguided.
Reviews
Art
A Plague of Digital Rats for Your Desktop
"DESCENT" is a downloadable, digital artwork that's inspired by both Bruegel and the Black Death.
Books
Barron Trump Turned into a Beautiful Manga Boy
In the first episode, Barron team up with Sasha and Malia Obama to investigate a “mysterious anomaly” brought about by the rise of the 45th president.
Books
The Modernist Flourishes of Aging Postwar Architecture
Extra Normal features Serge Fruehauf's photographs from two decades documenting the strange and surreal details of postwar architecture in Europe.
Film
A Sibling's Documentary About His Brother's Mysterious Murder
In Strong Island, Yance Ford lays out the peculiar circumstances that surrounded his brother's murder in 1992, and the void left in its wake.
Film
The Horror Story of a Dystopian Painter Obsessed with Control
The Last Family is a domestic horror story portraying the violent dissolution of a family.
Art
Toward a "Herstory" of Minimalism
Two gallery shows currently on view in Los Angeles place women artists in conversation with a period of contemporary art history that has been primarily shaped by the output of male artists.
Art
Isamu Noguchi’s Voluntary Stay in a Japanese-American Incarceration Camp
The modernist sculptor voluntarily entered one of the many incarceration camps for Japanese Americans, and it was an experience that deeply impacted him.
Performance
An Episode of Immersive Theater Unravels for an Audience of Five
Here is a new series of immersive theater experiences in New York that will link an evolving web of characters and storylines propelled by loss.
Art
When the Language Meant to Prop Up Art Makes It Fall Over
In Practice: Material Deviance, the group exhibition currently occupying the quirky basement space at SculptureCenter, can't quite live up to its curatorial statement.
Books
360-Degree Panoramas of Grand American Libraries
Thomas R. Schiff's photographs capture the American library as it transformed from a members-only space into a public institution.
Art
Three Artists Visualize the Uneasy Cohabitation of Humans and Nature
A show at Detroit's Wasserman Projects brings together Willy Verginer, Christer Karlstad, and Jason DeMarte, all of whom consider our relationship to the environment.