Art
It’s What You Make, Not What You Get
Color is the organizing principle of Jane Piper’s work, which builds upon the tradition of early Modernist painting.
Reviews
Art
Shari Mendelson: Message in a Bottle
Shari Mendelson's artifacts emerge from her subconscious as much as from her enthusiasm for her subject matter. In turn, they appeal to something preconscious in the viewer.
Art
Mark Dion Reimagines a Pioneering Botanist's Lab
The former winter home of Dr. David Fairchild in Miami now houses a permanent installation that Dion extrapolated from the botanist's life and work.
Art
The British Artist Who Painted Through War and Found Surrealism
A retrospective devoted to the British painter Paul Nash shifts the focus from his radical interpretations of war and Surrealism to his innovative use of color.
Art
The Lasting Presence of a 51-Year-Old Performance Piece
First performed in 1965, Robert Whitman's "Prune. Flat." contrasts cinematic images with live performers to create its own kind of theater.
Books
A Spin Through the History of Photographic Album Covers
Though revisiting the vinyl record is in danger of becoming little more than an act of nostalgia, 'Total Records' explores the art of the album cover within the context of our thoroughly modern practice of image sharing.
Books
An Artist’s 50-Year Project to Alter and Deconstruct a Victorian Novel
After five decades of mutating an obscure Victorian novel, Thomas Phillips's A Humument is printed in its final form.
Art
Printing Two Perspectives on Indigenous Lives
In his new series, Brian Jungen explores how the Canadian media have told the stories of First Nations people.
Books
A Work of Comics Journalism Relays Refugees' Stories from Iraq, Syria, and Turkey
In 2010, cartoonist Sarah Glidden embarked on a trip with two reporters to speak to refugees and make a book about how journalism works.
Art
Tripping Through Hélio Oiticica’s Mythical World
To Organize Delirium at the Carnegie Museum of Art is Hélio Oiticica's second retrospective in the US and is the first to delve into the Brazilian artist's critical New York years.
Books
Christmas at Midcentury, When Aluminum Trees Replaced Victorian Evergreens
A new book by Sarah Archer explores the influence of the Space Race and Cold War on America's midcentury Christmas celebrations.
Performance
Drag Ballerinas Spin Gender Roles into Farce
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo satirizes the clichéd gender conventions of dance, and the world at large, in technically superb takes on classical ballet.