Books
Dada’s Holy Grail
Marcel Duchamp’s zines leapt from their lair to entertain artists and educate the public.
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Music
Oceans of Sound: Jlin, Relax World, Slowdive, Thundercat
The best background music is also the best full-immersion music.
Art
The Impermanent Sculptures of Robert Grosvenor
Grosvenor shares almost nothing with other sculptors working today: He has not branded his work, nor has he made variations on a theme.
Art
Mothers’ Nightmare
Another walking-anger-management-issue finds a people-killing machine.
Art
Judith Bernstein Shines a Blacklight on Trump's Crimes
We cannot ignore the fact that Americans voted for Trump.
Art
Luisa Rabbia’s Tiny Marks and Big Mysteries
With her series Love-Birth-Death, Rabbia addresses some of humanity’s most enduring, universal enigmas.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Ellsworth Kelly's new Texas chapel, visiting the Trump border wall prototypes, woke in Arkansas, whitesplaining the Classics, drones at the Olympics, and more.
Art
An Argentine Collective of Political Art, Re-examined
Alexander Apóstol’s current exhibition at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires doubles as a show of new work by a contemporary conceptual artist and a retrospective of the 1968 events.
Art
Back When Painting Was Dead
When Clement Greenberg, Frank Stella, and Donald Judd tried to define what makes a painting, they overlooked a central feature — capaciousness.
Art
Devin Nunes and His Magical Memo
The art of the indecipherable narrative.
Art
When Artists Move from the Margins to the Center
The most powerful outsider artworks in Outliers and American Vanguard Art at the National Gallery of Art evoke ideals about all artists: the belief, for example, that they are distinct from non-artists.
Art
Rediscovering Edward Melcarth, a Gay, Communist Visionary
Kentucky-born artist Edward Melcarth dared to live as an openly homosexual man and did not hide his support for communism.