Art
Required Reading
This week, BIG's sustainable lilypad city, Germany's new dog laws, the Ghent Altarpiece upclose, white museum docents, Vincente Fox's Trump troll, and more.
Weekend
Music
Pop Blasts Away
Head-banging new music by 100 Gecs, Amnesia Scanner, Haru Nemuri, and Machine Girl.
Books
Erudite Poems That Playfully Rework the Conventions of Life Writing
German writer Heinrich von Kleist serves as a starting point for Matthew Fink's exploration of the Western canon's gossipy underside.
Art
Anne Neely's Ethical Abstractions
Neely has created paintings that respond to some of the major issues of the day: climate change, environmental water loss, and immigration.
Art
Léon Spilliaert's Nocturnal Visions
Spilliaert saw his hometown of Ostend, Belgium, as a kind of liminal space between the outside and his interior world.
Art
A Powerful Debut
As a young Asian American painter, Susan Chen knows what she is up against and is consciously pushing back.
Art
Required Reading
This week, very very soft furniture, butt types, the Combahee River Collective, Samuel Fosso talked to curator Okwui Enwezor, PowerPoint activism on Instagram, climate apartheid, and more.
Film
Relic Joins the New Era of “Mommy Horror”
Relic delves into a darkness beyond filial caregiving, approaching the mother figure as the first, and last, monster, her house a veritable womb for distinctly female trauma.
Books
How Words Cast Their Spell on a Poet
Geoffrey O'Brien explores language's magic — part sound, part sense, part bodily sensation.
Art
The Lives of the Art Museum
Like cabinets of curiosities from the old regime, art museums often display plunder.
Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
"I used to think art was an escape from the grind of daily life, but this work tells me it might be more of an inoculation — pieces of the world absorbed in small amounts so we can go out and live in it."
Art
Rediscovering Leslie Kerr's Pop Abstraction
Kerr was an abstract artist with a vulgar sense of humor.