Art
From Montage to Mounting: The Surprisingly Sexual Drawings of Sergei Eisenstein
Over the course of his life, Sergei Eisenstein amassed 5,000 sketches, including his "sex drawings," which depict various sex acts that are not limited to humans.
Reviews
Art
An Artist Imagines Moving Syrians to Mars
Halil Altindere's latest exhibition uses science fiction to explore real political quagmires.
Art
Getting Lost in James Siena's Drawn Labyrinths
As a non-discursive kind of writing, Siena's drawing speaks to a level of consciousness deeper than thought, bypassing the nagging intellect and going straight for the nervous system.
Art
The Crimson Fantasies of Louise Bourgeois’s Holograms
At Cheim & Read there is a new exhibition of Louise Bourgeois’s holograms, which she began making in 1998.
Performance
The Dances of the Slavic Goddesses
Artist Paulina Olowska collaborated with choreographer Katy Pyle to create a suite of solo dances based a 1918 series of prints depicting Slavic deities.
Art
Life and Death in Portia Munson's Garden
The centerpiece of her new exhibition at PPOW is "The Garden" (1996–98), a kaleidoscopic, room-filling installation housing hundreds if not thousands of artificial flowers under a canopy of sewn together flower print dresses.
Art
Gilded Age Statues Return to the Manhattan Bridge, Now with Kinetic Illumination
Brian Tolle's new public sculpture features two long-lost guardians of the Manhattan Bridge, now illuminating its Brooklyn entrance.
Art
An Artist Wittily Remixes Rodin
In her show at Paula Cooper Gallery, Liz Glynn keeps Rodin's signature realism and physicality, but sculpts her bodies to be more wretched.
Art
A Multimedia Jungle of Moving Images
The Whitney Museum's Dreamlands gathers a century of immersive moving image art, cutting across time and technology.
Books
A Photographer Documents the Uncanny Consistency of Hilton Hotel Rooms
Swiss photographer Roger Eberhard traveled to 32 cities in five continents to document the uncanny uniformity of the Hilton's standard hotel room.
Art
How Art Making Is Like World Building
This group show acknowledges the art-making process as one of world building, in the sense that artists are continuously generating sets of rules to govern their work.
Art
Drawing the Fragile Vulnerability of Transitioning Bodies
Roey Heifetz’s layers of lacquer, powder, and pigment, and lines upon lines of intensive, unsettling drawing, lacerate the gallery with pain, obsession, and passion.