Art
The Raging Optimism of Sally Saul
Sally Saul makes sculptures that are funny, sweet, and tender – states we are not likely to encounter in art or even in life.
Weekend
Art
Lessons of Yom Kippur
I am nonreligious and I don't practice Yom Kippur's rituals, but I appreciate its teachings.
Art
A Watery World Turned Upside Down
Tom Burckhardt’s “STUDIO FLOOD” is a tour de force artwork with a willfully scruffy, DIY look.
Music
LCD Soundsystem Looks in the Mirror, Again
LCD Soundsystem's American Dream is a passably punkoid rock album, fiery in places, elsewhere clunky.
Performance
A Dance Crosses Borders, from the Congo to the Stars
Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula and American writer and director Annie Dorsen contemplate storytelling at the Crossing the Line Festival.
Art
The Unknowable Ray Johnson
When Ray Johnson killed himself at the age of 67, the air of mystery surrounding his personality, life, and art only thickened.
Art
Brenda Goodman Cuts Deep
Goodman’s recent work is distressing, captivating, and weirdly funny.
Art
Required Reading
This week, images from the Cassini space probe, medieval history's reckoning with Nazis, the artist behind many Pre-Columbian fakes, your brain on art, font detectives, and more.
Art
The Pleasures of Slow Paintings
These paintings are what the artist Suzan Frecon calls “slow,” meaning that they reveal themselves quietly over time.
Art
Ruth Asawa, a Pioneer of Necessity
Asawa was a woman of Japanese ancestry making art in the years after World War II, which was a double whammy.
Art
After the (Big Mac) Revolution
Trump says that McDonald’s food has to be safe or else the company would be sued.
Art
Russell Maltz's Hard-Hat Formalism
Maltz sees a load of cinderblocks as a legitimate painting substrate — even after it's broken down and mortared together as the wall of an office building.