Art
Stanley Twardowicz, a Neglected Minor Master
The unsung Abstract Expressionist wanted his paintings to show none of the effort he put into making them.
Weekend
Art
Rosalyn Drexler Does Not Look Back
Since the 1960s, Drexler has continued to make powerful art and to go her own way.
Art
A President’s River of Lies
The Paris Accord has been declared irrelevant.
Art
An Artist Who Conveys Messages from the Dead
Self-taught artist George Kornegay created found-object environments for communing with the spirit world.
Film
A Spectacle of Fables and Fascism
In a new documentary, Tuscan townspeople turn the crises of their lives into the stuff of drama.
Books
When a Poem's Wrongness Is Right
The leap between image and utterance in Anthony Madrid's poetry is the challenge and, sometimes, the delight.
Books
The Surrealist Satire of Leonora Carrington
These stunningly strange, arrestingly intellectual constructs treat the human imagination with humor and forgiveness.
Art
The Passion and Pain of Carol Rama
Rama's paintings confront us with empowered female sexuality and insanity.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a museum prepares for Hurricane Harvey, a brutal architecture preservationist disaster, Melania Trump's use of fashion, Iran's pivot to video, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Farewell
"I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell."
Books
The Physics of Race, History, and Everyday Life
Samiya Bashir's poems attempt to describe with scientific precision the position of the black body in American culture.
Art
Portrait of a Young Artist, from New York to Vietnam and Back
The challenge for younger artists — particularly ones of color like Tammy Nguyen — is this: do you accommodate yourself to the marketplace, or do you find another way?