Art
Expressions of the Fullness of Being
In Natvar Bhavsar's art, all is in flux; everything is both what it is and all that it might become.
Weekend
Art
The Colors of the Sixties
Spilling Over: Painting in the 1960s at the Whitney Museum expands the common understanding of a pivot point in American art, while basking unapologetically in the pure pleasure of looking.
Art
Required Reading
This week, choosing ethics over aesthetics, Barnett Newman paintings in Amsterdam, shocking immigrant detention photos, Presidential logos, and more.
Music
Solange, Captured Mid-Dream
Conceived as a musical map of Houston, Solange's hometown, When I Get Home wanders from mood to mood, arrangement to arrangement, a soundscape as cityscape, where songs correspond to locations and melodies merge with memory.
Art
Ben Morgan-Cleveland’s Dispirited Words
Isn’t this the last thing we want to admit? That we are not sure what anything means or what we are supposed to do?
Art
Anton van Dalen’s Valuable Lessons
Using simple means, often just pencil and paper, van Dalen has made careful, painstaking images of cyborgs, pigeons, and war machines.
Music
John and Yoko’s Wedding Album, Once an Oddity, Now an Icon
An unlikely element of Lennon and Ono’s late-1960s peace campaign was an aural selfie, ahead of its time.
Art
Sarah Cameron Sunde's Immersive Performances
The artist seeks to address the severed relationship between the landscape and the viewer.
Art
Claire Sherman's Leafy Canvases
Sherman's paintings offer a captivating tension between movement and stasis.
Art
Nina Katchadourian Makes a World on an Airplane Seat Tray
Katchadourian excels at investing commonplace, inanimate objects with vitality and soulfulness.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a newly authenticated van Gogh, critics hate Thomas Heatherwick's "Vessel," US soft power and the literary avant-garde, National Museum of the American Indian's magazine is available for free online, and more.
Music
James Blake Grows Up
Assume Form is Blake’s first album to acknowledge his status as a pop presence, but it also feels like an attempt to broaden his range, to correct the way he became associated with generic melancholy.