Books
Immersive Artistic Journeys for Audiences of One
The New York-based Odyssey Works crafts incredibly personal journeys for one person, supported by an engaged community of artists.
Reviews
Art
Clusters of Loose Geometries in Conceptual "Thought Drawings"
Roberta Allen's gentleness and sweet humor keep this exhibition free of the high seriousness that can make some conceptual art so dry and off-putting.
Art
An Unflinching Meditation on the Violence Perpetrated Against Black Americans
In addition to the centuries of trauma that artists are exploring and attempting to reconcile with contemporary reality, there is also an underlying solidarity that weaves itself into the fabric of Non-fiction at the Underground Museum.
Art
An Artist's Guide to Wandering the Overlooked Edges of New York City
Matthew Jensen's Wonder Walks direct urban explorers to the fringes of New York City, to discover its hidden history and urban nature.
Performance
A Theatrical Release Party for a Reimagined Golden Record
A Host of People's new production reconceives the 1977 effort to create a phonograph record that would communicate the story of life on Earth to extraterrestrials.
Art
Watching Election Results Roll In While Surrounded by Political Art
On Tuesday night at WhiteBox, artists used their work to sound a clarion call to political action.
Books
An Artist Who Survived the Paris Terrorist Attacks Draws His Experience
Artist Fred Dewilde was in the audience at the Bataclan the night of November 13, 2015, and he's turned his ordeal and its aftermath into a comic book.
Art
In Brooklyn, a Clinton Sign Joins a Collection Dedicated to Presidential Runners-Up
A sign for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign joins presidential runners-up in Nina Katchadourian's “Monument to the Unelected” in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.
Art
Glimpses of 19th-Century Shanghai in Hand-Colored Photos
An exhibition features more than 35 prints by William Saunders, a British photographer who set up a studio in central Shanghai during the late Qing Dynasty.
Art
Quilting a Patchwork of Latin American and Caribbean Identity
There is nothing about Sylvia Hernandez's colorful quilts that is posturing, nor is the work ingratiating, playing up hackneyed tokens of Hispanic heritage.
Performance
A Dance that Moves to the Many Tongues of Brooklyn
In a musical and dance performance, a multilingual cast explores the polyphony of Brooklyn through language and movement.
Art
Black Identity Seen Through the Lens of Pulp Stories
In Black Pulp! at the International Print Center New York, artists and co-curators William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson connect the literary genre of pulp with one of its most powerful vehicles: the story of blackness in the United States.