Music
Taylor Swift's Quarantine Folktales
Swift's latest, Folklore, really is about being a sad rich person stuck at home.
Weekend
Art
Albert Murray Talking Modernism, Race, and Jazz
Murray came of age at a time when brutal circumstances coincided with buoyant Modernity.
Art
An Old Painter Stares at His Hands
Georg Baselitz reflects on his own aging hands through the prism of all the art he has seen.
Art
Cosima von Bonin Takes Cute Art Seriously
Implicit throughout the artist's latest show is the tension between the feeling of failure and the struggle to be recognized and taken seriously, rather than erased.
Art
Robert Mangold's Emotional Optics
With his recent works, Mangold underscores a consciousness of mortality that he meets with a gracefulness that is breathtaking.
Art
A Painter for a Heated World
Given his red-dominated palette, I don’t think it is implausible to suggest that one of Frank Holliday’s subjects is conflagration — a world consumed by fire.
Art
Required Reading
This week, fact check all of the vote-by-mail falsehoods, an academic takedown of a trade book, riding an ostrich, how we can dismantle white supremacy, an uptick in cracked teeth, and more.
Art
Tauba Auerbach's Sculptural Art Books
Much like her bookworks, Auerbach's catalogue S v Z deserves to be examined as a sculptural object before we unfold its cover and consider its contents.
Books
The Life of an Anti-Establishment “Rock Star”
In a first-ever biography of the recently deceased, Polish-born sociologist and theorist, there are lessons for creative people — and everyone else — about perseverance and personal truth.
Books
New Art Books for the New Season
An autumnal offering of Artemisia Gentileschi, Dorothea Tanning, Henri Matisse, and Guston galore, among much, much else.
Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“It was like realizing your parents have a life outside of you and you’re not a kid anymore.”
Art
Red Flags Are Flying at Rockefeller Center
Andy Goldsworthy's installation seeks to signal anti-imperialism at a notoriously capitalist site.