Art
Skipping Across the Decades with Mark Dagley
Dagley's new exhibition at Spencer Brownstone is a case study in sustaining a varied, disciplined investigation of painting as structure and object-making.
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Books
An Illuminating History of Modern Graphic Design
The Brooklyn-based publishing company, Standards Manual, has produced a series of meticulously crafted facsimiles of design manuals, from the New York City Subway to NASA.
Art
The Pursuit of Art, 2017
A year of truth-telling and electric painting.
Books
The Resonant Resistances of Political Poetry
Oakland-based publisher Commune Editions’ advocacy of community-based ethics animates volumes of poetry by Nanni Balestrini and Heriberto Yépez.
Art
A True Renegade Painter
The humor running through Sally Webster’s paintings can be goofy and good-natured. The intensity of her devotion to detail makes them more than that.
Art
Edvard Munch’s World Without Pity
Munch absorbed avant-garde styles but never became an avant-garde artist.
Art
The Victory of the Hyenas
On the Capitol lawn, a pack of hyenas are busy rending the corpse of the former United States of America.
Art
The Atmospheric, Earthy Art of Ignacio Iturria
Iturria’s art is shot through with melancholy, nostalgia, romance, gentle humor, and an abiding sense of curiosity about what makes people tick.
Music
The Quintessential Millennial Romance Album
Khalid, a 19-year-old vocal prodigy, looks at millennial culture and doesn’t see hedonism; it’s just life.
Art
Françoise Grossen's Gift of Quietude
Grossen's rope sculptures complicate the boundary between art and craft in a productive way.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Ron Mueck's giant skulls, white men on pedestals, the world's first biological house, destroying modernist landscapes, a dog named Masterpiece, and more.
Books
Working at the Threshold of Prose
Renee Gladman investigates the moments when writing crosses over into another mode of expression.