Art
Joanne Greenbaum’s Amazing Parties
Joanne Greenbaum began making tiny sculptures out of Sculpey in 2003.
Weekend
Music
Chance the Rapper’s Musical Playground
Not since fellow Chicago icon Kanye West’s The College Dropout in 2004 has a rapper invented a totally new aesthetic so happy, so inspirational, so kind and funny and friendly and committed to making everybody feel welcome.
Art
Following Sophie Calle
In April 1981, a detective followed the French artist Sophie Calle through the streets of Paris for one day.
Art
Agnes Martin, Irreproducible
When a cloud passes overhead, the paintings all but disappear.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Alex Israel shlock, Brooklyn's most famous building, Howard Hodgkins is unhappy (in life), John Cage meets Sun Ra, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Indecent
"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them."
Books
Reader’s Diary: ‘Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners'
What happens when you cross the perfervid emotionalism of Edna St. Vincent Millay, she of the candle burning at both ends, with Charles Olson’s idea, distilled out of William Carlos Williams, of a projective verse imbued with “the breathing of the man who writes” (and I suppose it is very emphatical
Books
Arthur Vogelsang Takes Us into Orbit
Being a poet in America is like being a submarine: you might be seen when you pop up, and, as a rule, people don’t go looking for you.
Art
Restless and Rigid
The work of Lee Mullican and others, including his friend Gordon Onslow Ford, shatters the myth that the only radical art being made in America in the 1940s and ’50s was by the Abstract Expressionists.
Art
The Political Art of Alicia Grullón
Like the food on our supermarket shelves, public artworks appear to us with their history of labor relations mostly obscured.
Art
All Blacks Are Matte
The still life photographs of Lakshmi Luthra, currently showing in Poly at Sushi Bar Gallery in Brooklyn with the work of Jonathan Bruce Williams, could have been shot on the floor of an abandoned department store, somewhere on the border between the Intimates and Electronics departments.
Music
Even in Love, James Blake Hovers Somewhere Just Out of Reach
I keep listening because I want to grasp it, and so the music generates the very frustrated desire it addresses.