Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“If I have to be discarded, let it be in the beautiful green space of this painting.”
Weekend
Art
Cecily Brown Crashes the House of Churchill
What will she make of the fabled greatness of the English past?
Art
Rivane Neuenschwander's Sensuous Reflections of a Harrowing World
Fear — so pervasive these days — has long been an important theme for Neuenschwander.
Art
An Abstract Painter Defines a Space of His Own
In his clashing compositions and use of artificial colors and materials Odita generates something very different from artists associated with geometric abstraction and Minimalism.
Art
Required Reading
This week, seeing Caravaggio, the new Princeton Art Museum, Judith Butler on JK Rowling, white supremacy and classical music, the QAnon threat, and more.
Music
A Wall of Hyperpop Sound
Although Brakence is not the only Gen-Z singer-songwriter to play with noise and distortion, few so gleefully enact the violent collision of forms.
Books
Using Language to Investigate Whiteness
In Wite Out Linda Norton seeks the words to envision relationships not shaped by hundreds of years of white supremacy.
Books
The End of Art History
Writing a global art history demands that we give up historical thinking.
Art
Tom of Finland Comes to Japan
Out, proud, and unabashedly homoerotic, the gay artist’s iconic imagery has become an international symbol of freedom.
Art
A Rebel in The High Modernist Camp
Suzan Frecon insists that art is a wordless experience, that paintings invites us to a plane beyond understanding.
Art
GaHee Park's Cool Nudes
There is a coolness to the way Park paints her figures, as well as a sculptural attention paid to form and surfaces.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the newly selected Theodore Roosevelt President Library design, Cuties outrage, philanthropy's difficult relationship to social justice, climate migration in the US, and more.