Art
Danny Lyon's Prescient Visions
“We are frail flowers in the field,” wrote Danny Lyon, the politically active, compassionate photojournalist, after leaving New York for Bernalillo, New Mexico, in 1969.
Weekend
Art
Jill Kroesen's Comeback: 'Collecting Injustices, Unnecessary Suffering' at the Whitney
Thirty years is a long time to step away. Jill Kroesen was deeply enmeshed in the downtown performance scene of the 1970s before she disappeared.
Books
Placing Hope in Ritual: Gabriel Ojeda-Sague's Oil and Candle
In Oil and Candle, the debut full-length poetry collection by Gabriel Ojeda-Sague, ritual and religion are turned to as salves for various societal issues, including racism, homophobia, and war.
Art
When a Splotch Isn't Just a Splotch
This two-gallery extravaganza takes up the tricky gambit of featuring “artists whose work involves a methodical and controlled process of creating seemingly freeform or random daubs and spots.”
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, art in shadow banking, the impact of focal length, oppressive minimalism, slave labor at the White House, Werner Herzog on Pokémon Go, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Heir
"I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting — of art in general — which we have lost, but which places obligations on us."
Books
Reader’s Diary: On Richard Bellamy
Richard Bellamy is one of the very few art dealers around whose name the word “legendary” floats like an aura. But how to convey what was so special about him is a nice problem for a biographer.
Art
Every Day Is Black Friday in Doha
In her memoir, The Girl Who Fell to Earth (2012), Sophia Al-Maria, who was raised as a bicultural Muslim, says she feels like a “deep-sea diver, adjusting constantly to the pressures of […] two very different environments.”
Art
Indelible Stains
If you should not judge a book by its cover? What about the living room you grew up in? What do its contents say about you? Does its décor reflect who you are?
Art
Rodin in Process at the Peabody Essex Museum
Speaking very generally and just of figurative art: sculpture creates a world around itself, and painting creates a world inside itself.
Music
Gender Menders: Anohni, RuPaul, Gwen Stefani, Now That’s What I Call Country
Like the idiot I am, I got Grimes’s Art Angels very wrong when it surfaced last year.
Art
Poetry at the Root: Yoshimasu Gozo’s Art, Writing, and Music
TOKYO — It’s not often that a major art museum hosts an exhibition for a poet.