Art
Required Reading
This week, contemporary art and global inequality, Melania's jacket and fascist history, queer Turkish identities, children and their toys, and more.
Weekend
Books
Mirtha Dermisache's Writing Is a Rorschach test
Dermisache's drawings posture as communication yet undercut it through illegibility.
Art
Daniel Zeller's Cyberpunk Abstractions
Zeller is a cartographer of alien surfaces — recording something between skin and machine, reptile and vegetation, thermal imaging and imaginary highways.
Art
Susanna Coffey Studies the Nature of Portraiture
For years, Coffey has produced modestly scaled self-portraits with not a brushstroke of flattery.
Art
Jeff Sessions’s Secret Fantasies
Stepping onto the path the Nazis trod.
Art
Van Gogh’s Japanese Idyll
Through willful imitation of Japanese art, van Gogh became the van Gogh we know, perhaps the world’s most famous painter.
Music
Rap Futurism: Cupcakke, Ski Mask and the Slump God, Playboi Carti, and Kanye West
The future of rap lies in silliness, absurdism, functionalism, and sonic delight.
Art
Jasper Johns' Life and Work: A Conversation Between John Yau, Martha Wilson, and William Villalongo
Who gets remembered and how?
Art
Required Reading
This week, the new Zaha Hadid Architects-designed hotel opened in Macau, Elizabeth Alexander on Lorna Simpson, art collector and art publisher Peter Brant sounds, um, problematic, "Terrorientalist Landscapes," Paul Gauguin's midlife crisis, and more.
Books
Ted Greenwald's Poems Chart Our Connections to the Earth
Greenwald combines a Wordsworthian sense of nature with cartoon-like characters.
Art
An Artist Who Turns Detritus into Talismans
Nicola Ginzel’s choice of found materials speaks to a society in which disposability is a commonplace, deeply ingrained mechanism.
Art
Surprises from Wayne Thiebaud, Master Draftsman
Thiebaud, just a few months shy of his 98th birthday, offers a glimpse into the thinking behind his five decades of work.