Music
Where Body Meets Machine
The music of Japanese Breakfast’s Soft Sounds from Another Planet trembles, alive with possibility.
Weekend
Art
Olivia Munroe’s Art Goes Mystic
A funny thing happened to Munroe’s works on their way to finding physical form.
Art
When Art Refuses to Let Go
Delirious at the Met Breuer is an exhibition filled with beautiful but comparatively polite works by habitually transgressive artists.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Paris's Lost and Found, a new contemporary museum in South Africa, Google does evil, rescuing a lost Albanian alphabet, logo redux, and more.
Art
Peter Saul Knows What to Do with the President and a Hamburger
Some artists get the honor of having their work displayed in the White House, but chances are Saul will never be one of them.
Art
Hoot and Holler with Stanley Whitney
Whitney’s drawings cite influences from Harlem Renaissance literature to bebop.
Art
President Pottymouth
It's not what you think it is — it's just a dirty hole.
Art
Vienna’s Prodigal Son
The talent and tumult of Richard Gerstl’s work beg the question of what would have been had he not ended his life.
Books
Good Vibrations: Prose Poetry as Stand-Up Comedy
In Jeremy Sigler's My Vibe offers refreshing honesty about failure within the system of calculation and profit.
Art
Robert Irwin's Drawings Without Marks
Irwin's unlit light fixture sculptures encourage us to see and contemplate the entire space, and ourselves within it, as elements of the art.
Art
The High Drama of Hot Color in a Field of Black
Jason Karolak’s colors grab your attention like flashing LEDs in a dark-as-midnight casino.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Basquiat is remembered by those close to him, art school bs, US political comics today, how a Houston museum prepared for a hurricane, what artists should do with waterlogged belongings, and more.