Art
Bringing a Constellation Down to Earth at a Ruined Castle on the Hudson
For the next two years, a constellation built by human hands over the ruins of a Hudson River castle is mingling with the stars.
Reviews
Art
Contemporary Artists Create a New Kind of Order at the Barnes Foundation
PHILADELPHIA — It’s an illuminating mental exercise to ponder: what if Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the pharmaceutical tycoon and physician who assembled an unmatched collection of Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings in Philadelphia, was actually an installation artist before his time?
Performance
Between Now and Nowhere: A Performance Dissects Reality
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — In an age where our attention often frays and never lingers, it is rare to find something that holds it unwaveringly for 60 minutes.
Art
Fabrics Stained with Colonial Blues
CHICAGO — It is the duality of indigo's beauty and its intimate connection with human degradation that artist Jovencio de la Paz explores in his current exhibition of batik works.
Art
Dieter Roth’s Chaotic and Cacophonous Gesamtkunstwerk
BERLIN — The exhibition And away with the minutes spins like a rococo confection around the prolific noise music projects of the legendary and influential German-born Swiss artist Dieter Roth.
Music
Horses, Lake, Trees, Sweat, Hotel, Sun, Bed, Girl, Phone, Birds, Film, Ski Town, Yard, Mountains, Road, Dandelions, Sun Kil Moon
From chirpy beginning to gloomy end, the new Sun Kil Moon album portrays a man in love with the concrete noun.
Art
Stanley Whitney Reclaims His History
Happily, for those who are curious about what came next in Whitney’s evolution, they need only to go uptown and see the artist’s first museum exhibition in New York, Stanley Whitney: Dance the Orange at the Studio Museum in Harlem, which contains a selection of twenty-nine paintings and works on pap
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Haunted by the Present: Pedro Costa’s 'Horse Money'
The history that underlies and often possesses Pedro Costa’s Horse Money, the final entry in the director’s Fontainhas tetralogy, is almost ironic – more than two decades in, Costa’s project has outlived its subject, the titular Lisbon slum now demolished by the Portuguese authorities.
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Alien Forms: 'Cosmicomics' at Frosch&Portmann
Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics, first published in 1968, is a collection of twelve tales — most of them narrated by an ancient, improbable being by the name of Qfwfq — that blend science fiction with fantasy and indulge in the mind-expanding ethos of the times.
Art
Art Projects That Toe the Line Between Sharing and Surveillance
This is going to sound absurd, but: who watches the watchers of the watchmen?
Art
Seeking Digital Decompression with the Institute for New Feeling
CHICAGO — The Institute for New Feeling (IfNf) visited Threewalls on July 16, bringing with it a small traveling exhibition and film screening.
Art
Highlights from the RISD MFA Painting Exhibition in Chelsea
Ten recent graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) MFA Painting Program are debuting their work at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Chelsea.