Art
The Sounds of Nature, Transcribed and Composed
Sound maps of rivers and songs for cicadas are two examples of a new kind of music inspired by 19th-century German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz.
Reviews
Books
Someone Made a Book of #artselfies
The selfie exists everywhere that people own smartphones. DIS Magazine’s #artselfie, published by Jean Boîte Éditions, attempts to freeze one aspect of this cultural moment — the art selfie — by parlaying its meaning into a gleaming, print-only book
Art
Explosive Watercolors and Collages, Subtly Contained
Looking at Marcia Kure’s watercolors and collages, the word that comes to mind is “torque.”
Music
Physical Spiky Funk
Put on the new D’Angelo album and you’ll discover fifty-six minutes of music completely hidden behind a veil of static.
Art
Quickly Aging Here: The 2015 Triennial
After six years and three installments, is the New Museum’s Triennial entering middle age? An odd question for an exhibition devoted to “early-career artists,” as the museum’s press release describes them.
Art
The Intimate Duality of Human Behavior
HUDSON, New York — Surrounded by Thomas Micchelli's works in the John Davis Gallery yesterday, with my back to the gallery's back wall, I became transfixed by two paintings that throbbed with a rich purple that glowed as if lit by the winter dusk.
Performance
An Experimental Performance Captures Prison, Neglects Inmates
ALBUQUERQUE — Carlos Contreras glares down from the stage at Tricklock Performance Laboratory, animated and preaching into the mic like the National Poetry Slam champion that he is.
Art
From Creepy Kids' Books to Puckish Erotica, an Illustrator's Improbable Oeuvre
French illustrator Tomi Ungerer has worn many hats, none of them obviously compatible with any of the others. A cartoonist, political satirist, and illustrator of both children’s books and sadomasochistic erotica, he has designed a cat-shaped kindergarten for a German school and condoms for a French
Books
Robert Moses's Two-Faced Legacy Gets the Comic Book Treatment
Robert Moses was never elected to a major office in New York City, but he completely altered the topography of the metropolis through three decades of construction projects.
Performance
Early Anti-Lynching Plays, Read in Light of Ferguson
Just two days before the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) released its report "Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror," I sat in the audience at JACK in Brooklyn for a reading of playwright Mary P. Burrill's 1919 anti-lynching play Aftermath.
Art
When Consumer Goods Blossom into Otherworldly Fungi
LOS ANGELES — Benjamin Lord's grossly delectable photographs, on view in his exhibition The New Retail Mycology at Monte Vista Projects, invite viewers to closely consider the social construction of a landscape.
Art
The Political Poseurs of Contemporary Russian Art
It is always a thankless task to review a show against the backdrop of current political events.