Art
Monstrous Mutations (Part 1): From Spam Scams to Tweets
With their awkward syntax and frequent misspellings, the president’s tweets aren’t too far from the language of spam.
Weekend
Art
Yayoi Kusama’s Mesmerizing, Meditative Garden
Kusama’s installation connects with a broad reach of Rockaway's history, as well as the impact of climate change on the area.
Art
Michel Auder’s Images of Images
Jonas Mekas has called Auder a “voyeur par excellence.”
Art
The Divergence of Art and Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum
Presenting contemporary garments alongside Byzantine and Medieval artworks underlines the visual differences between the two genres of objects.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Ernesto Neto's new crocheted tree, reviewing Picasso in 1932, considering the park around Eero Saarinen's famous arch, the reality of open office plans, Hannah Arendt on refugees, social media happiness, and more.
Music
A Talking Heads Album, Forty Years Later
More Songs About Buildings and Food, a concept album about late capitalism, speaks with disarming directness to the current political moment.
Books
Sweet, Gritty, Impossible Naples
The other great centers of the Italian art world – Florence, Rome, and Venice – have modernized; Naples mostly has not.
Books
Cuba at the Cusp
The images that foreshadow the turmoil of the Cuban Revolution jar you back to the precariousness of our times.
Art
The Stain on Our Flag
We thought humans had evolved.
Art
Revisiting the Legacy of Women at Black Mountain College
The school's loosely structured pedagogical model allowed women to play vital roles throughout Black Mountain's brief history.
Art
Seeing Ourselves in Sculpture
Richard Nonas's sculptures alert each of us to the specificity of being — in a specific time and a specific place.
Art
Hand-Copying the Constitution and Other Responses to Trump
Oh, What a World! What a World! brings together a diverse range of artists’ reactions to the anxiety gripping the nation.