Art
A Painter Shows Her Resentment Through Satire
The five extraordinary paintings that comprise Alissa McKendrick's Resentment combine a revitalized figuration with a satiric sensibility.
Weekend
Art
Confronting Art Critics With Their Own Portraits
Luca Del Baldo paints portraits of art critics and historians — often people he has never met — and then requests their response to complete the work.
Art
Required Reading
This week, E. Jean Carroll writes about the time Trump assaulted her, “gentlefictation” of graffiti, Latinx poetics post-Hurricane Maria, Facebook screws everyone, a history of US concentration camps, and more.b
Music
The Maximalist Dance Music of Valgur, Ibibio Sound Machine, Hama, and Steve Lacy
These new releases burn with creepy surprises, rubbery jitters, musical knots, and basslines that run into your arms.
Art
Mark Greenwold Looks in the Mirror and Does Not Flinch
Greenwold takes us down the rabbit hole into that place where fear and trembling preside.
Art
The Joan Mitchell You’ve Never Seen
Highly analytical, Mitchell was a master of setting off one form or color against another, advancing the idea that a painting can be made of separate but layered and entangled parts.
Art
Alain Kirili's Embodied Abstract Art
Throughout his career Kirili has evoked the body in his abstract sculptures, in an era when sculpture has often sidestepped the human form.
Art
The Legacy and Life of a Political Art Collective
Bold and vigorous in their expression, the collective Taring Padi has bitterly denounced the corruption of the Indonesian government.
Art
Excavating Mark Rothko’s Theatrical Foundations
The paintings Rothko made before 1948 are considered minor, but an exhibition in Vienna claims that they are essential to understanding the artist’s mature works.
Art
The Searing Beauty of Nancy Spero
With their free interplay of image and text, Spero’s Codex Artaud and the even more ambitious Notes in Time are nothing less than a personal redefinition of the nature and meaning of visual art.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the fall out from When They See Us, selfies at Chernobyl, the Universal Music fire disaster, Trump doesn't read, the rot in US corporate media, and more.
Art
The Poetic Vinyl of Susan Howe and Nathaniel Mackey
Curated by Shannon Ebner, this LP combines recordings of poems as well as archival material from 1991 through 2018.