Books
Freud’s Case Studies in Hysteria Get the Graphic Novel Treatment
Psychotherapy as we know it today wouldn’t exist without the so-called female “hysterics” of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Reviews
Art
The Fine Line Between Praising and Exploiting the Creative Resourcefulness of the Needy
MEXICO CITY — Shards of glass protrude from the walls and the smell of cigarettes fill Anonymous Gallery for a solo show by Mexico City-based American artist Andrew Birk.
Art
Taking the Branding Out of Brands in a Small British Town
BRIGHTON, UK — In an age of cuddly brands that want to be your friend, these products offer a chance to connect with real people, and the overall look echoes bustling market stalls rather than distant marketing brainstorms.
Art
Artist Casts His Body Parts in Disturbing Commentary on Grindr
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Many women will happily tell you — if only you looked them in the eye instead of the chest — there is something deeply alienating about being reduced to one’s body parts.
Art
Cage aux Folios: Mark Dion Makes a Library for Birds
It takes a few minutes for the avian residents of Mark Dion's "The Library for the Birds of New York" to settle back into their chirping and fluttering after you've entered the giant cage and stepped below the strange white oak laden with books.
Books
Rethinking Life Beneath Our Cities' Concrete Overpasses
With the rapid development of transportation infrastructure in the 20th century, much of our urban land was shrouded in shadow.
Performance
An Immersive Theater Trip to a 1970s Tropical Paradise
Only minutes after walking through a hallway painted like the cabin of an airplane and handing my mock boarding pass to a charming man in a Hawaiian shirt, who greeted me with a lei, I was in a secret room getting a tarot reading.
Art
The Saga of Affordable Housing, from the Historical to the Personal
This is not just an informative and enlightening show; it's also an important one, one that gets us to look at what, for some of us, is necessary to live in this particular time and place.
Books
Reader’s Diary: Juliana Spahr’s ‘That Winter the Wolf Came’
Poetry not always but periodically seeks its upper limit — music, as readers of Louis Zukofsky know — and that includes Juliana Spahr’s.
Art
Sylvia Plimack Mangold Has the Floor
Plimack Mangold’s floor and ruler paintings are smart, tough, assured, direct and, more than forty years after she did them, they remain challenging: works in which she literally and figuratively cleared a space for herself in ways that have yet to be fully recognized.
Books
Only Abandoned: The Poetry of Marcel Broodthaers
Midway through the retrospective of Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers currently at the Museum of Modern Art, the visitor comes across the witty short film La Pluie (Projet pour un texte) [The Rain (Project for a text), 1969].
Music
Bowie's Last Role
There’s never been an album quite like David Bowie’s "Blackstar" in rock & roll history.