Art
Painting by Touch, Not by Sight
Kim Dingle is an artist with a history of working under preconceived constraints.
Weekend
Art
An Artist’s Irrepressible Alter Ego
In the world of Ebecho Muslimova’s recurring character, Fatebe, there are no men: they are irrelevant.
Art
In Praise of the Baffling
Tabaimo is not interested in dumbing down her references to Japanese culture, or in turning her art into entertainment for a Western audience.
Art
A Chance Meeting in Tel Aviv
Rembrandt and Spinoza walk into a bar.
Art
Michelangelo's Divine Magnitude and Picasso's Parade of Power
The intimate drawings of Michelangelo Buonarroti and the largest painting Pablo Picasso ever made.
Music
Pop Fixations: St Vincent, Lorde, Taylor Swift, Portugal the Man
Three of these four albums count among 2017’s best, and they all share the same producer.
Art
Conjuring the Demons and Mysteries of Society through Painting
For Collage as Painting, Kate Abercrombie and Trevor Winkfield look at mysterious, esoteric, and sometimes troubling aspects of everyday life.
Art
Painting the Sky on Sunday
Byron Kim's diaristic texts offer a bird’s-eye view of his life — the youth soccer games, the dinner parties, the glum and the optimistic moods, the children going away to college.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a gigantic Katharina Grosse in Sydney, Anuradha Vikram on radical of women, Trevor Paglen on the changing nature of contemporary images, talking to Haitian art collective Ti Moun Rezistans, and more.
Books
A Modern Poet's Timeless Word Bank
Maureen McLane starts off her collection with a gaze that projects itself from the ground to the depths of the galaxy.
Art
An Artist’s Devotion to Exactness
The sensual surfaces of Susan York’s graphite sculptures bring together sight and touch without favoring either.
Art
Catherine Murphy Sets the Bar Higher and Higher
Murphy shows viewers things they know — a cherry pie or a pile of broken dishes — in ways that are arresting, straightforward, and extremely unsettling.