Art
Required Reading
This week, Yayoi Kusama goes floral, the battle over US identity, considering David Goldblatt in Paris, Humanities problems, reviewing the Pioneers of African-American Cinema, and more.
Weekend
Music
Wendy's Serves Up a Beefy Mixtape
The fast food chain's mixtape We Beefin? explores an uncharted outreach strategy.
Art
Matthew Wong’s Hallucinatory Pilgrimages
Wong proceeds mark by mark without knowing in advance what will happen or where he will go.
Art
Richard Hull’s Hall of Mirrors
Hull’s “stolen portraits” are funny, weird, seductive, robust, mysterious, saucy, and nearly impossible to decipher.
Art
Stampeding Out Trump’s Door
Thirty-seven Trump Administration officials have been fired or resigned in just over a year.
Books
Poetry from the Picket Line
Two poets, veterans of university unionization campaigns, chart the growing crisis of the new intellectual working class
Art
The Art of Eating Cherry Blossoms (with Recipes)
A normal artist would just take a picture of the cherry tree.
Art
From the Green Market to the Gallery Wall
Karin Sander’s Kitchen Pieces draw your attention to the rhythmic ridges of an acorn squash, the bumpy peel of an orange, and the spiky surface of a yellow dragon fruit.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Soul of a Nation in Arkansas, "female monsters" in art, new "golden age" of black painting, trends at Milan Design Week, Zaha Hadid's only built house is complete, and more.
Art
Provocative Art about Blood and Masks
Daniel Pešta's paintings refute the conventions of classical beauty but their nightmarish imagery can be exquisite.
Art
A Trailblazer of Computer Drawing Gets Her Due
An exhibition offers a glimpse of Vera Molnar’s career, from post-Constructivist abstraction to her use of a computer to make drawings.
Art
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s Guide to the Americas
In Vásquez de la Horra’s cosmology, we encounter fantastical creatures on whatever journey we take, whether it is to a real place or an imagined future.