Art
Stormy and Trumptaeon
The grotesque transgressor, having seen the Goddess naked, was delivered by Zeus to Stormy Artemis, who would decide his fate.
Weekend
Art
The Political Resonance of Contemporary Sculpture
Sculpture at Luhring Augustine posits contemporary sculpture as a corrective to politically regressive monuments in the United States.
Art
When Photorealism Meets Delacroix
Robert Bechtle’s photorealist pictures of suburban California resist exoticism as much as Delacroix’s paintings of Algerian harems.
Art
Richard Aldrich's Elliptical Paths Through Language
Aldrich brings a rich sense of materiality to a practice founded on the gap between images and language.
Art
Required Reading
This week, reviewing Civilizations, conserving Edgar Degas's tutus, tech's "disruption" of photography, Facebook's long history of apologies, architects and designers championing afrofutrism, and more.
Books
The Complex and Passionate Poems of Joseph Ceravolo
Ceravolo worked for most of his life as a civil engineer and brought an outsider sensibility to his poetics.
Books
A Dystopian Fairy Tale Reflects Challenges of the Present
Despite the serious environmental and political challenges presented in The Emissary, Yoko Tawada suggests that another path exists.
Film
Monstrous and Touching Stories Within Stories
Fritz Böhm’s debut film Wildling is cloaked in mystery, dark and dank, occasionally bloody, sometimes shocking, and fantastically folkloric.
Art
When Paintings Are Stitched, Unstitched, Twisted, and Knotted
Julia Bland combines weaving with paint to make works that don’t quite fit comfortably in a single category.
Art
Have We Learned Anything from the Past Century?
“If we were to lose the ruins we would be left with nothing.”
Art
Kay Rosen’s Writing on the Wall
Rosen employs a visual idiom of protest that relies more on wordplay than imagery.
Art
Jay DeFeo and the Anarchic Spirit of Surrealism
For DeFeo, Surrealism was not a technique, but a state of seeing and experiencing everyday life.