Art
India’s Reclusive Master of Primordial Form
Krishna Reddy was one of the most innovative printmakers at the most innovative atelier in Paris.
Weekend
Art
The Alternate Modernism of a Modernist Pioneer
Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern takes a close look at a period when patriotism was distinct from nationalism, populism did not equal demagoguery, and left-wing radicalism was the coin of the aesthetic realm.
Art
Required Reading
This week, museums have to change, academic publishers under siege, ignoring tear gas at the Warhol show, Meghan McCain and Eli Valley, and more.
Art
Botticelli Through a Graphic Novelist’s Eye
For Botticelli: Heroines + Heroes, the painter, cartoonist, and graphic novelist Karl Stevens was called in to provide interpretive drawings of the Renaissance master's paintings.
Books
How Frederic Tuten Became a Writer
Each chapter of Tuten's memoir precisely details a specific moment of realization, however wayward and, at times, harrowing.
Art
The Rediscovery of Robert Duran
A new show provides a glimpse of Duran's restless, astute nature and his willingness to explore different formal possibilities.
Art
Sean Scully’s Figurative Leap
“Someone recently asked me how I navigate the space between my abstract and figurative paintings, which I often paint side by side. I said I jump.”
Art
Navigating the Slippage Between Reality and Illusion
The architectonics of Leslie Wayne’s structures exude impermanence and a poetic expression of loss.
Books
A Love Note to the Quirky South
Decades in the making, the late poet Jonathan Williams’s photo-filled travelogue captures the creative spirit of a region.
Art
Painting Paradoxes of Family, Race, and Prison
Through his father’s profession as a corrections officer, Pat Phillips has found a pictorial strategy for probing the racial chasms of the justice system, and by inference, everyday life.
Art
Required Reading
This week, blackness, distrust in media, the original instructions to Tetris, face tattoos, and contemporary women artists in Georgia and more.
Books
An Author's Ode to Eyelashes
In place of the Surrealists’ obsession with the eye, poet and visual artist Tiziana La Melia’s debut collection adopts the eyelash as an emblem.