Art
A Rescue Mission for Venezuelan Modernism
A number of significant Venezuelan artists, whose work is focused on improvisational methods and art’s material nature, are virtually unknown in the US.
Weekend
Art
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall
Where is my precious wall?
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Fred Tomaselli
“There is an outer world of violent chaos, and an inside world that is the paradise of being an artist.”
Art
Photographing the Women of British Art
Mayotte Magnus’s Illuminating Women features stage actors, novelists, artists, editors, and publishers whose breakthroughs coincided with the Feminist movement of the 1970s.
Art
Elise Siegel and Her Inscrutable Heads
Siegel’s sculptures recall the great screen actors whose faces projected profound and precise shifts of feeling.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Hollywood's caravan problem, death of consensus, cooking ancient Hittite food, seniors and fake news, the High Line's problem, and more.
Books
Geoffrey O'Brien's Poetics of Compression
The poet casts himself as an escapist reader, amassing archives to be condensed as paraphrase.
Books
Dissolving the Boundaries of Asian American Fiction
Janalyn Guo takes Asian American fiction to a new place, where old categories no longer apply.
Art
Eleanor Ray’s Sacred Spaces
There is a deep, warm solitude running through all of Eleanor Ray’s paintings — a sense of being alone and luxuriating in the human silence and changing light.
Art
What Is “Outsider” in Unthinkable Times?
Art’s uplifting power is unmistakably real; today, the works of the most original autodidacts feel more compelling than ever.
Books
An English Translation of Belgian Surrealist Writing
Authors Paul Nougé, Paul Colinet, and Louis Scutenaire exhibited a staunch ethic of underground and elliptical obscurity.
Art
Bill Brandt’s British Reality Show
Brandt’s photographs are dense with the enigmas and silences, riddles and obscurities hidden beneath ordinary British lives.