Art
Making Prison Great Again
The Congress turns against him. He refuses to resign.
Weekend
Music
Two Sprawling and Disorderly Trap Albums
Migos and Rae Sremmurd streamline voguish rap conventions into digestible product.
Art
Outsider Art Comes to the Metropolitan Museum
The entry of works from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation into the Met’s collection has prompted the museum to rethink the way it presents 20th-century art history.
Art
Chronicling the Stains of History
Born three years after Hitler’s rise to power, the Austrian artist Bruno Gironcoli wandered a postwar mindscape of grim hallucinations and grimmer jokes.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the man that helped launch black modernism in the US, considering Nobuyoshi Araki, crowdfunding as a political weapon, a reading list for mental health month, the Laurel/Yanny divide, and more.
Books
A Poet's Minecraft Romanticism
References to shadows, ghosts, and other “gothic” images in Nadia de Vries's debut poetry collection can be read as representing relationships experienced online.
Music
The All-Encompassing Cardi B
Invasion of Privacy sounds like another conventional rap album, before revealing Cardi B’s maniacal determination to be all things to everybody.
Art
Nadia Haji Omar's Multicultural Cartography
Omar brings together possibilities of allusion that the mainstream art establishment has yet to truly recognize.
Art
Armed with Hindsight
So one question I have not heard you answer is, do you believe that the previous interrogation techniques were immoral?
Art
Daniel Hesidence's Views of an Imaginary Landscape
Hesidence masterfully balances information and aesthetic pleasure to produce a joy that should not be taken lightly.
Art
Art and the Ascent of the Third Reich
By returning to the details of life embedded in bodies, objects, and the earth, the artists featured in Before the Fall at Neue Galerie conveyed the hope that the world might reassemble itself.
Art
Judy Linn's Rigorous Geometry
Linn has a knack for noticing the odd and unexpected in everyday life, and seems to have her camera with her at all times.