Art
The Met’s Wrong Turn on Revisionism
When an exhibition is as puzzling as this one, it’s useful to step aside and reflect.
Weekend
Art
Required Reading
This week, the first-ever photographs of the dark side of the moon taken from the surface of the natural satellite, athletes and their tattoos are becoming a problem for video games, eating in the Stone Age, Trump as an evangelical Cyrus the Great, and more.
Books
A Poet Invents Her Voice
Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s Third-Millennium Heart is a beautiful monster of a book coming at you straight, with no padding of preface or foreword to warn you what you might be in for.
Books
Digging Into Memory and Time
John Koethe can be mordant, bleak, anguished, humorous, tender, and even sweet.
Art
The Presidential Portrait Revealed
Dishonest people, these artists, and very unfair.
Art
Learning from an Art Bastard
The problem with Robert Cenedella’s analysis is that it isn’t radical enough.
Art
Brian Belott's Time Pieces
Belott’s “frozen artworks” signify duration in the interval between the water freezing and the ice melting.
Art
In Search of More Brutalism
The disavowal of blighted Brutalist structures is a rejection of the unconditional love of imperfection.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Eau de Nil, the fake internet, a right-winger’s freakout over a new museum director, reviewing new books about Islam, Scottish coorie, and more.
Art
An Artist's Summary of the World
Rina Banerjee’s work is a melange upon a melange of images, ideas, and information existing in contrast to the fact that we can never know everything.
Music
The Pistol Annies, Alone and Together
Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley are so consistent and prolific, independently and in their supertrio, they elicit hyperbole.
Art
A Dozen Memorable Exhibitions from 2018
Just because most museums in America are still asleep at the wheel, it doesn’t mean all is lost.