Art
Twenty-Nine Thoughts on Jasper Johns
He pushes back against the widely accepted view that the artist’s primary goal is formal innovation.
Weekend
Art
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Incarceration
Joe Arpaio’s actions and Donald Trump’s pardon are flagrant attacks on citizens’ rights and protections.
Music
Freedom, Walt Whitman, and Phish
Phish connects with a visionary tradition in America reaching back to the expansive Walt Whitman and the soulful Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Art
Robert Hughes Is Not My Dad
An Australian writer contends with the contradictory legacy of his home country's most famous art critic.
Art
Making Art from a City's Isolation
At Winnipeg's Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, art acts as a kind of magnifying glass, exposing the city's unconventional and, at times, undesirable aspects.
Art
Required Reading
This week, becoming "fake news," Guatemalan artisans fight back, Larissa Sansour's film controversy, Chinese pro-military film propaganda, the trolls of Vermont, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Wall
"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."
Books
The Earth as a Dump and Refuge
The Astropastorals, a new collection of poetry by Douglas Crase, brings together two decades of material in 18 pages.
Art
Four Uncompromising Finnish Women Artists
There are no portraits of men or depictions of happy couples in this exhibition at Scandinavia House.
Art
Twenty-Six Thoughts on Robert Rauschenberg
MoMA's retrospective runs from stench and perfection to perfection and putrefaction.
Art
Peering Down Trump’s Lie Hole
This mouth debases and shames our country.
Art
A Participatory Studio of Utopic Creativity
At the Kunsthal Rotterdam, David Bade and Tirzo Martha create sculptural explorations of still-life paintings.