Art
Color Is the Carrier of Emotion
Although it is very early in Jule Korneffel’s career, she has moved into a territory where color and materiality outweigh discursive content.
Weekend
Art
Reconsidering Saul Steinberg
In an art world that celebrates the work of Raymond Pettibon, it seems to me that Steinberg deserves another look.
Art
Reviving a Forgotten Artist of the Occult
Today, more than 100 million copies of Pamela Colman Smith’s Tarot card designs, the Rider-Waite-Smith Deck, are in circulation in over 20 countries, making it the most popular set ever made.
Art
A Painter With a Purpose
In Evan Fugazzi's paintings we are given the pleasure of experiencing how each color helps to define the others.
Art
An Artist's Commentary on the Damages of Men
The most shocking thing about Sarah McCoubrey's paintings is their startling and deeply unfashionable, unapologetic beauty.
Film
A Frankenstein for the Forever Wars
Depraved, a soulful indie take on Frankenstein, proves the perennial relevance of Mary Shelley’s monstrous creation.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the world's tallest indoor waterfall, reality check at Hudson Yards, roots of white nationalism, a rare 15th-century Irish translation of an 11th-century Persian medical encyclopedia, and more.
Film
Hans Op de Beeck Stages Silence
A whimsical fantasia constitutes the film's emotional and intellectual core.
Books
When Will Ralph Eugene Meatyard Get the Retrospective He Deserves?
Meatyard’s use of masks, shadows, abandoned houses, and figures in motion open up a deep and multi-layered place of feeling that we have yet to fully address.
Art
The Radiant Fearlessness of Mimi Gross
The exhibition Mimi Gross: Among Friends, 1958-1963 helps to set the record straight: Gross was a strong, confident artist when she met Red Grooms at the age of 18, and that her work continued to grow right up to their marriage in 1964.
Art
Nari Ward’s Angels in America
Ward doesn’t just utilize found objects; he communicates with them — intellectually, visually, soulfully.
Performance
The Wooster Group Explores Black Folklore in Texas State Prisons
The live a cappella is a result of the conditions under which the songs were originally sung: in open fields.