Art
Ruination and Rumination on the Anthropocene
Patty Chang's ecological art struggles with its own fatalism.
Weekend
Art
Photos from the Dashboard
Robert Marshall's dreamlike images are fleeting, fragmentary glimpses out the window of a moving car or train.
Art
The High Life of Vermeer and his Contemporaries
Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting reinserts Vermeer into the tradition in which he worked, both demystifying his paintings and lending force to his particular take on the genre.
Art
Required Reading
This week, considering Etel Adnan, MVRDV’s "fake" Binhai library, the aesthetics of Empire, the end of Twitter's utopian ideals, mapmakers and horror vacui, and more.
Art
An Iraqi Artist Bears Witness to the Trauma of Displacement
Hayv Kahraman, a half-Kurdish Iraqi and naturalized Swede living in the US, is no stranger to identity politics.
Music
Reveling in the Beauty of Emo-Rap
Critics overstate the extent to which Uzi and other new rappers have absorbed the influence of emo, which lately seems to have become a buzzword for vulnerability and interiority.
Art
When a Painter Enacts a Ritual
There is a ceremonial aspect to the way Alison Hall makes these works, from the sanding of the plaster to the painting of the surface, to the drawing of the dots, to whatever she does next.
Art
When Hate Consumes the Brain
The great satirists — Goya, Daumier, Guston — understood that caricature is a complicated mix of anger, humor, and empathy.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Steve Mumford and Inka Essenhigh
Essenhigh and Mumford — who live together and work in adjoining studios on the Lower East Side — are unafraid to make declarations about what motivates the other.
Art
Alison Saar Breaches the Legacy of Environmental Racism
By illustrating the impact that the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 had on Southern black communities, Saar exposes a neglected history and its resonance with environmental racism.
Art
Women Artists Working with Technology
This rigorous exhibition uses art to critique the stereotype that men and technology go hand in hand
Art
The Undiscovered Ceramic Art of Stanley Rosen
Stanley Rosen’s ceramic sculpture is like a country that many of us never knew was there until now.