Art
Required Reading
This week, when Canadian students called the art of Carrie Mae Weems racist, Alexa and the blind, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kanye, black jazz ambassadors during the Cold War, and more.
Weekend
Art
Mary Mattingly's Poetry of Things
Mattingly makes the case that poetry is precisely what’s missing from mainstream responses to anthropogenic climate change.
Art
An Artist Conjures the Ghosts of Displacement
Yun-fei Ji composes a seamless synthesis of Western and Eastern art in the service of his subject: the government-sanctioned erasure of entire villages in the name of progress.
Art
The Devotional Act of Touching a Brush to Canvas
Francisca Sutil has enlarged her scale and started to work on canvas, and the effects are mesmerizing.
Art
A-Tisket A-Tasket, I Lost My Money Basket
I was in my limo to the White House, and on the way I dropped it.
Art
Breaking Down Boundaries Through Poetry and Photography
In their collaborative project, Boundaries, Richard Blanco's poems run parallel to Jacob Hessler's photographs, often adding a narrative to the wide-open image.
Art
Tomás Saraceno's Sculptures Touch the Sky
Strapped into a harness beneath Saraceno’s inflated sculpture, we are carried aloft, peaceful and ecstatic, merging with the air.
Art
The Spirit of Painting in an Altered World
Revisiting a painting show that “changed the art world, for better or worse.”
Art
Required Reading
This week, dating a museum, trusting Silicon Valley with our common history, a new book on photographer Garry Winogrand, how slaves are depicted in Ancient art, and more.
Books
Néstor Perlongher Conjures the Disappeared and the Dead
Perlongher evokes Argentina, its people, and their resistance in the face of violent dictatorship.
Art
Mernet Larsen Welcomes You to the Vortex
Larsen’s dry, matter-of-fact humor and eye for the absurd are everywhere in her paintings.
Art
Zoe Pettijohn Schade Looks at the Inevitable and Doesn’t Blink
It is one thing to get lost in a meticulous, intricate work of overlapping abstract patterns, and quite another to have it look back at you.