Books
Titian Peale could have been the first major American lepidopterist, but instead his five decades of vibrant butterfly illustrations and research languished, unpublished until 130 years after his death.
Art
DETROIT — Hey, denizens of the art world, let’s take a moment to consider the radical implications of chilling the fuck out for a minute.
Art
Artistic interpretations of self are inhabiting the nave of Manhattan's Church of St. Paul the Apostle, with contemporary sculpture, painting, college, and other media installed alongside the candlelit chapels and religious icons.
Books
It would be impossible for me to write impartially about Michael Gizzi’s newly published Collected Poems. I became acquainted with Michael and his poetry when I was twenty.
Art
I had not seen Kyle Staver’s frieze-like clay sculptures before encountering two of them in Kyle Staver: Tall Tales, her current show at both Lower East Side spaces of Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects.
Art
SHIFT; The Angel of History, an installation by Elana Herzog at Studio 10 in Bushwick, is a witheringly beautiful meditation on the murderous elegance of fate.
Art
“My life has transformed itself into a montage of simultaneous things,” Hélio Oiticica wrote in a letter in 1971.
Performance
Prison plays an ambivalent role in the imagination of many white Americans.
Art
Exiting the big, steel elevator to enter Doubleworld, the first major survey of Sarah Charlesworth's work currently at the New Museum, one steps into another, double, world and directly into the gallery of Stills: 14 photographs of people jumping or falling from tall buildings.
Books
A common piece of advice to writers is to show, rather than tell.
Books
After centuries of slaving away in the shadowy alcoves of museums, libraries, and archives, curators are finally having their 15 minutes in the spotlight.
Books
In June of 1699, a 52-year-old Maria Sibylla Merian departed on a cargo ship for South America's Suriname with only her 22-year-old daughter Dorothea Maria for company.