Art
Gilbert & George, Full of Themselves Again
How should we take all this buffoonery? In part, it looks like satire. But what exactly are they poking fun at?
Weekend
Art
Levan Mindiashvili's Childhood Memories
Mindiashvili's installations strike a teasing balance between disclosure and concealment.
Art
Avedon's Father, My Mother, and Processing Death
People say you should talk to the dying to reassure them, but words felt too pedestrian for this profound space of transition.
Art
Living and Working in the Korean Diaspora
Ahrong Kim is a masterful ceramic sculptor whose touchstone is a young Asian woman’s head.
Books
The Salacious and Scholarly Poems of Yusef Komunyakaa
The poet suggests his art’s highest calling isn't truth-telling but stirring our empathic imagination.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the cost of competing on RuPaul's Drag Race, "The Scream" is in solidarity with Strike MoMA, a new biography of Edward Said, and more.
Art
A Painter of Organized Chaos
Brazilian artist Caetano de Almeida lets colors call to colors, and shapes to shapes, as he works his way across the painting.
Film
The Art of Looking at, and With, Animals
Gunda and Stray reveal how difficult it is not to romanticize the lives of other animals.
Books
A Poet of Isolation and Uncertainty
The poems in Jean Day’s Late Human carry a sense of having arrived at a moment when nothing feels quite right.
Art
Every Dealer’s Nightmare: The Inevitability of Fakes
The media almost always overlook what is truly interesting about fakes: not who made them, who sold them, or who was in on the scam and who was not, but what they tell us about art and those who produce it.
Art
Marilyn Lerner Shifts Gears, Again
Lerner’s new works evoke an asymmetrical kaleidoscopic hum, as geometric forms and multiple hues dance around each other.
Art
An Artist’s Lifetime of Asking the Hard Questions
Derek Boshier’s commitment to being a witness to the catastrophes and jarring discrepancies of daily living has contributed to his near-invisibility in New York.