Art
Nancy Spero Takes No Prisoners
The issues that compelled Spero to create some her most provocative work never cease to trouble us.
Weekend
Art
Seth Price’s Digital Dissolution
Price works over his photographs with chemicals, polymer fluids, and powdered earth — decimating digital data through analog means.
Art
Edward Burtynsky Depicts Our Alien Domain
The photographer's large-scale images depict landscapes altered and scarred by human industry and development.
Art
The Pursuit of Art, 2018
The creation and interpretation of art remains an anchor and a refuge, a sanctuary for vanishing ideals.
Music
A Compilation of Commercial Christmas Jingles
Enjoy these Christmas recordings while you can, for humming these tunes is forbidden after the new year.
Performance
Social Climbing in Lynn Nottage's Comedy
The playwright's protagonist rises to the pinnacle of society only to fall back down to the housing project where she grew up.
Art
The One and Only Jenny Snider
Snider easily qualifies for such categories as “neglected” and “overlooked,” but her work cannot be contained by these terms.
Art
The Young Firebrands of Indian Modernism
The Progressive Artists’ Group represented a microcosm of class, caste, and religion, making them the perfect poster boys for the Nehruvian ideal of secularism.
Books
Dick Higgins: Avant Garde Provocateur and Philosopher
Higgins was a participant observer of outrageous innovations in art, music, poetry, performance, and independent publishing for decades beginning in the 1960s.
Art
Art of Clay and Steel in the City of New Orleans
Although George Dunbar and William Monaghan differ in visibility and style, they are both prodigal sons who have left this city and then returned to it.
Art
Kara Walker Invites You to a Public Hanging
Walker’s installation “Virginia’s Lynch Mob” evokes a latter-day Saturnalia, turning the world upside-down.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Crazy Rich Asians flops at the box office in China, artists are quitting Instagram, an LA mural sparks debate, and more.