Art
Confronting Loss Through Abstraction
Throughout her career, Andrea Belag has pushed her style of the moment to its limits and then modified it again.
Weekend
Art
A Painter’s Path from Bosnia to Florida’s Backwaters
Amer Kobaslija captures Florida’s lush, strange atmosphere while examining the expressive potential of oil paint’s luminous, elastic, viscous goo.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the beautiful new Green New Deal video, Edward Gorey's life as art, a really bad review of DC's Tintoretto exhibition, a David Lynch cameo, and more.
Music
Billie Eilish's Creepy, Crawly Pop
Eilish’s debut album is an exercise in comic horror.
Books
Wallace Berman's Magical World
If you have any interest in the wild array of people who defined the West Coast bohemian world, you must read Tosh Berman's Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World.
Art
The Pleasures of DIY Art
Is amusement now considered taboo?
Art
A Showcase for Shintō’s Gods
An exhibition of rarely seen, ancient art explores the complex ideas and rich expressions of Japan’s indigenous religion.
Art
System and Sensibility: Dorothea Rockburne at Dia:Beacon
Rockburne insists that her work has a mathematical basis, yet her most moving creations are those least tethered to a methodical, rational approach.
Art
Reinhard Mucha's Unsettling Precision
Mucha's reflective sculptures ensure that while looking at one work, viewers are aware of others and our presence among them.
Books
Is It Beautiful, or Is It Art?
We philosophers love to argue, and so when I say that Thierry de Duve offers a lot to argue with, I mean that as sincere high praise.
Art
Required Reading
This week, unzipped architecture in Milano, photographer Lana H. Haroun speaks, white supremacy and Viking history, the Classics and Biblical Studies divide, and more.
Art
The Radical Proposition of Dan Robbins
Andy Warhol was fascinated by the concept that an image that could be reproduced in millions of versions, while Robbins fabricated this concept. Big difference.