Music
Twenty One Pilots: Eclectopop
Twenty One Pilots confound genre lines so exuberantly that even Wikipedia has no idea what to make of them.
Reviews
Art
It Is What It Isn’t
It has been two years since Patrick Strezelec had his first exhibition of sculptures in New York in more than a decade.
Art
Clifford Owens’s Scatological Whispers
In the past five or six years, Clifford Owens’ provocative performance work has begun to garner notable, sometimes polarizing, attention.
Art
Daisy Craddock’s Pastel Drawings: If Landscapes Could Talk
If a dollop of paint or a chunk of stone could talk, might it reveal just how much it enjoyed having been scraped across a canvas by a Joan Mitchell or picked at by the masterful, form-seeking hands of an Isamu Noguchi?
Art
Slouching Towards Banksy's Dismaland
WESTON-SUPER-MARE, UK — Someone really should have sent a disgruntled teenager to review Dismaland, the latest Banksy extravaganza: part amusement park, part art exhibition tucked away in an abandoned former resort complex at the British seaside town of Weston-super-Mare.
Art
The Unsettled Legacy of John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent’s brilliance as a painter should be obvious to anyone with eyes. And yet a perennial caveat inevitably surfaces in much of the discussion that accompanies exhibitions of his work.
Books
Artists Are Not Kale: A Gallery Management Guide’s Many Failures
The it-book of summer, we were told, was Management of Art Galleries by the self-proclaimed “art market expert, serial entrepreneur, and bestselling author” Magnus Resch.
Art
Encounters with Art on Lawns, Porches, and Facades
CHICAGO — Finding its way onto porches, birdhouses, and neighborhood lemonade stands, the Terrain Biennial is currently installed in various domestic locations around Chicago and the world, inviting the public to take a bike or carpool to check out outdoor works by over 75 artists.
Books
Math and Madness in a 1960s 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' Illustrated by Dalí
In 1969, the Maecenas Press imprint of Random House published 2,700 copies of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, each chapter accompanied by one of 12 heliogravures by Salvador Dalí.
Art
A Spoken-Word Artist Goes Behind the Scenes of Detroit’s Redevelopment
DETROIT — Detroit exists these days amidst a flurry of newcomer enthusiasm, rapid development, and media characterization that sometimes leaves longtime residents struggling to identify with the way “new Detroit” is being presented — and more importantly, packaged — for outside consumption.
Books
A Guide to What Replaced the Avant-garde Spaces of 20th-Century New York
Which art hubs of 20th century New York City are now sterilized condos, and where does the creative spirit remain?
Art
An Art Festival on Norway’s Arctic Islands Considers How Humans Are Changing Them
SVOLVÆR, Norway — “Lofoten is at a tipping point,” a local artist told me the night I arrived on the Norwegian archipelago for the opening weekend of the 2015 Lofoten International Art Festival.