Books
Keep Looking: Rebecca Wolff’s 'One Morning—.'
So serene an entry point into this volume, the title One Morning—. promises the lengthening of sunlight across the expanse of a modest domestic existence, incidents without excitement.
Weekend
Music
Carly Rae Jepsen, Antipersona
Carly Rae Jepsen is the emptiest pop diva to have released an album this year, and that’s not an insult.
Art
Speak, Memory: Becky Suss’s Painterly Anthropology
In his 1973 essay “Approaches to What?,” an underground classic of documentary aesthetics, French writer Georges Perec opposes the drive to find meaning primarily in “the big event, the untoward, the extra-ordinary: the front-page splash, the banner headlines.”
Art
Built-In Fracture: Donald Baechler in the 1980s
In the thoroughly absorbing exhibition Donald Baechler: Early Work 1980 to 1984 at Cheim & Read, there are two works, both from 1982, in which the artist appears to be unlearning how to draw.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, being trolled by Fox News, a photograph that took 720,000 exposures to get right, Lee Miller's war photography, ISIS and looting, drones catching drones, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Gun
The New York Times reports that fear of restrictive gun laws causes a spike in gun sales.
Books
Vision, Music, and the Scepter: Ben Mazer’s 'The Glass Piano'
Ben Mazer may best be considered a poet for poets; his work a fortress against the common reader.
Art
Ray Yoshida’s Foresight
What do Roger Brown, Sarah Canright, Jordan Davies, Ed Flood, Art Green, Philip Hanson, Richard Hull, Jin Soo Kim, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca, Barbara Rossi, William Schwedler, Rebecca Shore, Chris Ware, Karl Wirsum and Mary Lou Zelazny have in common?
Books
Humanizing an “Enigma”: A New Book Illuminates Martín Ramírez’s Life and Art
What is known with certainty about an artist’s life story can undoubtedly shed the light of understanding on his or her achievements and legacy. But what happens when authoritative historical documents, personal letters, photos, diaries and other materials have not been consulted or are scarce or ev
Interview
Calling Occupants: A Conversation with Miguel Gomes
Since the release of his 2004 feature debut The Face You Deserve, Portugal’s Miguel Gomes has become arguably the most exhilaratingly perplexing figure in world cinema.
Art
Seeking the Real at Art Basel Miami Beach
So where were they? An Inside Art column published in The New York Times a week before the opening of Art Basel Miami Beach dangled the prospect of a more inclusive fair this year, one that would feature “A Focus on Female Artists,” as the headline put it.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the rise of philanthrocaptialism, race debt in the US, how images fade in the media, Pantone's colors of the year, the Art Preservation Index, and more.