Art
Traces of Human Civilization, Cast from Styrofoam Packaging
The exhibition in the back room of A.I.R. Gallery's new space in Dumbo feels like a cross between a temple and an archaeological site.
Reviews
Performance
The Slippery Politics of Weaponized Theater
Trash Cuisine is a play about the visceral horrors of political violence.
Art
The (Un)Changing Portrayal of White Women in 100 Years of Advertisements
The idea is so ingenious, it almost seems obvious: take advertisements and remove the text that makes them so, leaving only a string of images behind.
Art
Personal Takes on the Realities of Colonialism
LONDON — How do you tell a story that does not want to be told?
Art
Kehinde Wiley Paints the Precariousness of Black Life
Much has been made of the current Kehinde Wiley retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum.
Art
Weather Report: Hito Steyerl's Documentary Forecast for the Digital Age
For the last several years now, as the credits roll at the end of her films, artist Hito Steyerl’s name, rather than appearing alongside the typical “Written and Directed by,” is listed with roles (or non-roles) considerably more blurred and expressionistic.
Art
Exploring the Terrain of Contemporary Native American Art
Where are the indigenous stories, communities, and artists within “American” contemporary art?
Art
A Project that Lets You Control Music with Your Mind
With new technology comes new opportunities to augment our reality, and two art projects now on view in Brooklyn experiment with our interaction with sound through electronic devices.
Art
J.M.W. Turner, the Sublime, and Me
LOS ANGELES — “You don’t experience the sublime looking through double glazing, or at a distant electric storm, or watching a sea rage on TV.”
Art
Abstract Paintings that Reflect the Rhythms of Our Time
In terms of freewheeling, soul-bearing angst, Abstract Expressionism might once seemed to have had the final word.
Books
Rats Build Their Labyrinth: Oulipo in the 21st Century
The Oulipo, short for the Ouvroir de littérature potentielle [Workshop for potential literature], was founded in Paris in 1960 by two polymaths: Raymond Queneau, a former surrealist known for writing Zazie in the Metro, and François Le Lionnais, a mathematician and engineer.
Art
Tom Burckhardt’s Arrival
Tom Burckhardt just keeps getting better and better.