Art
Gordon Parks’s Long-Forgotten Color Photographs of Everyday Segregation
When Life magazine sent Gordon Parks to document the daily lives of three black families living in Alabama, it was 1956, during the Montgomery bus boycott.
Reviews
Art
Early-20th-Century Drawings of Fanciful Flying Machines
Prussian immigrant Charles A.A. Dellschau spent most of his life in Houston working as a butcher; when he retired in 1899 at the age of 68, he turned his attention skywards and devoted himself to an entirely different endeavor: designing airships and charting the development of flight.
Art
Germany’s Leading Art Prize Sets a Museum in Motion
BERLIN — The prestigious Preis der Nationalgalerie, considered the German equivalent of the Turner Prize, was inaugurated in 2000 and recognizes artists under the age of 40 who live and work in Germany, regardless of nationality.
Art
Fragile Monuments to the Jar’s Ancient Form
BOSTON — What’s so interesting about Nicole Cherubini’s sculptural work might simply be just how impossible it is to (mentally) house it anywhere specifically.
Performance
Hearing a Poignant Eulogy in David Bowie's First Musical
The musical Lazarus, currently nearing the end of a sold-out run at the New York Theatre Workshop, is the closest we'll get to a final David Bowie performance.
Performance
An Opera About Plucking and Pimping Fallen Angels
The opera Angel's Bone, having its world premiere at the Prototype festival, opens with a married woman fantasizing about telling her husband that she doesn’t love him.
Books
Before Google Earth: A Rare Cartographic Compendium From Renaissance Europe
Long before the ubiquity of Google Maps, these colorful engravings, produced between 1572 and 1617, comprised the world's most accurate and elaborate collection of urban cartography ever made.
Art
Approaching Technology as a Second Skin
MEXICO CITY — Walking through Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Pseudomatisms feels like being inside a cyborg or supercomputer.
Art
Thrills, Fantasy, and Nightmares in 150 Years of Art Inspired by Coney Island
Coney Island has a history as dizzying as any of the roller coasters, carousels, sideshows, and other frenetic attractions that have operated on its piece of Brooklyn shore.
Art
Joaquín Torres-García: A Global Modernist Before His Time
Progress is one of the key myths to the reception, assessment, assimilation, and display of modernist art.
Art
Not Necessarily Pleasant: The Paintings of Juanita McNeely
One of the more ferociously beautiful shows you’re likely to see this season is by a 79-year-old painter who was barely out of high school when she was given six months to live.
Art
Contemporary Latin America as Told by Insiders and Outsiders
MEXICO CITY — TRUE STORY at Proyectos Monclova creates a complex interpretation of Latin America’s “truth,” invoking conversations about extreme image production, the distribution of information, and artists’ roles as translators of their circumstances.