Art
The Magic of Light and Shadow in Asian Puppet Theater
LISBON — Asian shadow theater is catnip for those with energetic imaginations.
Reviews
Art
Illuminating the Wonders of Paris's Nuit Blanche
PARIS — It was nearly 2am and I was watching snow fall on the abandoned railroad tracks of the Petite Ceinture.
Art
Detroit Artists Take a Hammer to Traditional Ceramics
DETROIT — These days Detroit is a hotbed of craft-based forms revisited.
Art
Prends-Ça! A Paris Exhibition Invites Visitors to Take the Artworks with Them
PARIS — Take Me (I'm Yours) at the Monnaie de Paris revives and expands a 1995 exhibition curated by Christian Boltanski and Hans-Ulrich Obrist at London's Serpentine Gallery, in which all the art is designed to be touched and taken away.
Books
Mediators! Matadors! Joshua Clover’s 'Red Epic'
A swansong for the millennium has just been written and none too soon; or rather, an evensong for late capitalism’s annihilation.
Art
Recovering Abstraction: McArthur Binion’s Intimate Grids
McArthur Binion’s exhibition, Re: Mine, currently at Galerie Lelong stirred up a swarm of associations while I was looking at it, and the buzz did not die down after I left the gallery and decided to walk home amidst the late afternoon din of Manhattan traffic and people in a rush to get home.
Books
Taking His Chance: John Cage's Diary
One of the minor ironies of the postwar avant-garde is that an artist so resolutely against personal expression and the myth of the inspired genius should become the focus of a cult of personality.
Film
On 'Amy' and 'Ex Machina'
Asif Kapadia’s documentary Amy reconstructs the late singer, Amy Winehouse, by giving the viewer the full story, Amy’s entire life from girlhood until her death.
Art
Every Picture in the World: William Buchina's Dream Logic
William Buchina’s disquieting, enigmatic, and prodigiously complex paintings are one artist’s answer to the relentless media barrage that defines our visual culture, counteracting its torrent of images with a seemingly inexhaustible barrage of his own.
Art
Inventive Twitter Projects Monitor Air Quality, Calm Chemo Patients, and More
At last month's London Design Festival, six projects considered how Twitter might enable interactions beyond verbal communication.
Art
An Artist Couple Explores the Sexy and Not-So-Sexy Realities of Intimacy
DETROIT — Intimacy is often falsely billed as romantic.
Film
A Pair of Filmmakers Captures the World in 16mm
The films of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler are silent, brief, and sagely meandering — luminous contemplations of life, film, and the intimacies between the two.