Music
New Takes on Christmas Music
You wouldn't know it from listening to the same old hits on Christmas radio, but every year a flood of new Christmas music hits the market.
Weekend
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Richard Hull
“My lifelong project in my painting has been to locate myself.”
Art
Kiefer Overbrims His World
Anselm Kiefer draws down the world upon his shoulders in a mood of what can only be described as apocalyptic excess.
Art
The Somber Symbolism of Jill Mulleady
The Swiss-Uruguayan artist here challenges viewers with a single, colossal painting and a group of provocative conceptual pieces.
Art
Marino Marini’s Scarred Monumentality
Marini’s membership in the Fascist Party is something that will cling to him, despite his self-exile to Switzerland and the anti-imperialist tone of his postwar work.
Art
Where Brenda Goodman’s Paintings Are Taking Us
From limbless bodies to gorging, ravenous figures to gouged surfaces, there has always been something broken and deeply damaged about Goodman’s art.
Art
The History Paintings of Jenny Snider
Snider’s interest in the relationship between popular culture, theater, dancing, innovative art, politics, and persecution, as seen through the lens of the Russian Revolution and Soviet art, addresses the present moment.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Williamsburg goes BIG, Bette Midler's museum tweet, US politicians and food, how the British damaged the Parthenon marbles, the longest walk on earth, and more.
Books
Penelope Rosemont's Essays Expand the Surrealist Canon
Threaded through this collection is an optimistic belief in Surrealism as a world-changing political and poetic practice.
Art
Lucian Freud’s Shadow Self
As a displaced refugee, Freud knew he would always be something of a stranger to himself, but how much would he ever wish to know of himself?
Art
Seeing Ourselves in a Chimpanzee's Art
Seeing works by Congo the chimp takes us from wild aesthetic conjectures to sobering ethical dilemmas around animal agency, art ownership, and basic rights of living creatures.
Art
Meleko Mokgosi's Discursive Art
Mokgosi is as interested in the discourse around the figures in his paintings as in their representation — not that the two could ever exist separately.