Art
Feeding King Narcissus
Sucking at the shithole, an unquenchable leach.
Weekend
Art
Taking the Painter Out of Painting
For Christian Bonnefoi, it is when the painter disappears as the author of a painting that the artwork emerges.
Music
Shimmer and Melancholy in SZA's 'Ctrl'
The songs on Ctrl occupy a space where insecurities over sex, romance, and gender are credibly illuminated, coexisting as they do with music committed to functionalism and the pleasure principle.
Art
The Visible Language of Outsider Art
Vestiges & Verse: Notes from the Newfangled Epic, an exhibition of illustrated texts by self-taught artists, feels so intimate that it seems to enter the creative process itself.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the Disneyland of Detroit, the Dubai Frame opens, Sinclair Media's Trump connection, funerary photos and the politics of social media, and more.
Book Review
Artist Interviews and the Literature of Self-Endorsement
In three recent volumes, artists express nostalgia for the smaller, scrappier New York art world.
Art
A Show That Requires a Different Kind of Looking
ROYGBIV at the Kate Werble Gallery represents a diverse gathering of artists – veterans and newcomers, abstract and figurative, from Portland to Tehran.
Art
A New Year’s Wish
Hoping for sanity in 2018.
Art
Retooling Paint for the Digital Era
In his quietly dazzling New York solo debut, Ryan Crotty pushes post-painterly abstraction past the anxiety of influence.
Art
The 2018 Outsider Art Fair, a Preview
Celebrating art made by autodidacts situated, by choice or circumstance, on the margins of culture and society.
Art
The Cosmic Utopianism of Two Fin-de-Siècle Collectives
The exhibition is strongest conceptually when the curators focus on the artist collectives that sought a new social and cosmic order through art.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Shigeru Ban's Mt. Fuji Center, Basquiat in London, the Met's new admission policy, reviewing Trump's border wall prototypes, the Library of Congress's Twitter archive, and more.