Opinion
Trump’s Last Act
The most incandescent of invectives now feel like simple statements of fact.
Weekend
Art
Rachel Eulena Williams's Threads of Abstraction
The strength of Williams’s new work lies in its transgression of aesthetic and, by extension, social and political lines, which are drawn more sharply in these fraught times.
Art
Required Reading
This week, lessons from Minneapolis, Leonora Carrington's novel, spoofing US news, banner year for psychics, danish kids' TV, and more.
Art
Some Thoughts About England’s Obsession With Portraits
With the possible exception of Howard Hodgkin, not a single English abstract artist has attained anything comparable to the status achieved by Lucien Freud or David Hockney.
Books
Did You Know That Robert Hershon Is a Major Poet?
I cannot think of another contemporary poet who is willing to expose his vulnerability, worry, and pettiness through the lens of humor.
Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“It’s a painting about uncertainty with a tinge of optimistic fatalism — perfect to get me through 2020.”
Books
Missives From the War to End All Wars
Elizabeth Gray's poems seek to discover where we are in the midst of a battle we can never fully see.
Art
Melancholy in Black and Neon
Mary Weatherford’s new paintings confront us with a sense of place, a remembered moment, a hidden story.
Art
The Chance Meeting of Robert Rauschenberg and Coho Salmon in a Dream
Everything connects; you just have to find out how.
Art
The Silence of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Looking at Yiadom-Boakye’s portraits is an act of slow discovery, the unveiling of a mystery.
Art
Four Artists Recall a Year to Forget
Judith Bernstein, Carroll Dunham, Alia Ali, and Tomashi Jackson talk about what got them through 2020.
Art
Judit Reigl’s Corporeal Presence
Legend has it that no one took notice of Jackson Pollock’s first exhibitions in Paris, but an anonymous Hungarian immigrant named Judit Reigl did.