Art
A Chinese Museum Invites Artists to Respond to the Local Landscape
"Mountain Sites" is a merry chase of an exhibition that remains tuned in to the presence and the (often anachronistic) contemporaneity of its locality.
Reviews
Art
The Loneliness of a Digitally Manipulated Boxing Match
Encountering a boxing match projected on the wall of a darkened room is pretty unlikely while roaming around Chelsea galleries — unless you’re at a Paul Pfeiffer show.
Art
Unpacking Trauma by Examining the Bullet that Caused It
The video essay is Vanessa Gravenor’s attempt to make sense of her trauma, which remains serpentine, meandrous, never subsiding, ever present.
Art
A Small Celebration of One of the Kiowa Six’s Most Prolific Painters
Four paintings by Stephen Mopope, discovered a few years ago at Brown University, are on view for the first time.
Books
Visions of the US Flag that Could Have Been
A book revisits a selection of 50 previously unseen suggested redesigns of the American flag made between 1958 and 1959.
Art
Exploring the Faulty Nature of Memory in Video Art and Clay
Artist and composer Alexis Gideon synesthetically examines the nebulous line between memory and truth in The Comet and the Glacier, on view at Locust Projects.
Art
A Video Cookbook Documents the Diverse Food Experiences of New York City
Artists Theresa Loong and Laura Nova's Feed Me a Story gathers family recipes and immigrant food experiences through a roving social engagement project.
Music
Musical Compositions Stitched from Lace Patterns
Harpist Zeena Parkins's project LACE translates the visuals of lace fragments and knitting charts into notation for instruments.
Art
A Forgotten 20th-Century Photographer Who Folded Her Work into the Fabric of Life
An exhibition at the Americas Society spotlights Kati Horna, who believed that the circulation of images, rather than the standalone photograph, could bring about social change.
Art
Trenton Doyle Hancock’s Packed, Percussive Paintings
The artist's solo show at James Cohan is a raucous, slightly creepy, rebellious screed.
Art
Lust for Life Drawing: A Room Full of Iggy Pop Nudes
"Iggy Pop’s body is central to an understanding of rock music and its place within American culture," says Jeremy Deller. "It has witnessed much and should be documented."
Art
The Power of Protest Art, from Goya to Polke
In Soulèvements, an ahistorical exhibition of art made for and about acts of protest, works either make their political agendas self-evident or embed them in their formal properties.