Art
A Monument to Henrietta Lacks in Union Square and Other Art in Odd Places
The 2016 edition of Art in Odd Places included a monument to Henrietta Lacks, a "Red Line" archive, and roving dialogues on the theme of race.
Reviews
Art
An Immigrant’s Dual Identity Manifested as a Divided Exhibition
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Like many an immigrant’s tale, Osman Khan’s ambitious installation work begins with a journey.
Art
Paintings that Embrace the Impossibility of Painting
Jaya Howey takes painting very seriously, and so he finds himself in a very serious corner.
Performance
An Acrobat Embodies the Weightless Beauty Before a Fall
The Brooklyn Academy of Music presented French acrobat Yoann Bourgeois’s nouveau cirque Minuit for the first time in the United States.
Film
An Anti-Cinematic Portrait of Jonas Mekas
Is a film that is almost devoid of its main component still a film?
Art
Ann Hamilton Pays Tribute to Philadelphia's Frayed Textile Industry
PHILADELPHIA — Started around 1907, Municipal Pier 9 was built as part of a comprehensive plan to upgrade the Delaware River as a shipping channel.
Art
A Public Art Forest of 4,000 Spindly Redwoods Takes Root
Spencer Finch's new public art project has 4,000 trees recreating part of a California redwood forest in Downtown Brooklyn.
Art
The Experimental Eclecticism of Ed Moses
His daring embrace of an anti-style approach opened up new potential for abstract painting.
Books
Reader’s Diary: George Seferis's ‘Six Nights on the Acropolis’
George Seferis's mercurial tone can turn on a dime from lyricism to humor and back again, just as his characters shuttle between sensual abandon and neurotic self-flagellation.
Art
The Beauty of Absent Bodies
Whoever thought that Carl Andre’s joyless, hug-the-floor sculpture was the logical culmination of Brancusi got it wrong. This kind of thinking strikes me as macho, competitive, and prescriptive.
Art
Kenji Fujita's Vernacular of Accumulation
Binary oppositions get slammed a lot in our “rhizome”-besotted era, sometimes with interesting results.
Performance
Downtown Tyrant: Romeo Castellucci's Julius Caesar in New York
Long a darling of the European festival circuit, Romeo Castellucci and his Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio have since the 1980s presented a visually driven, philosophical theater, often with classical references and the provocative presence of animals and the animality of humans.