Music
How Much Dylan Do We Need?
The Bootleg series once served a useful function, but it has long since tipped over into decadence.
Weekend
Art
The Challenges of Fashion in a Museum
Contemporary Muslim Fashions is an exhibition that is also a major political statement, one that should provide support for multicultural tolerance and understanding.
Art
Larry Fink Illuminates the Drama of Boxing
Initially uninterested in boxing, Fink became hooked on exploring this world of grand ambitions and human vanity.
Art
Italian Painting, Before the Fall
Metaphysical Painting offered a philosophical refuge for Italian artists shaking off their Futurist sugar high.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the new National Veterans Memorial and Museum, a strange dog-headed spider, Fredric Jameson on Karl Ove Knausgaard, Warhol's sexism, KitKats in Japan, and more.
Film
Two Feminist Directors Who Exposed the Trials of Working Class Women
While the female protagonists in Barbara Loden's Wanda and Susan Seidelman's Smithereens may be lost — and legitimately poor — the one thing they are not is self-pitying.
Books
Ranjit Hoskote's Poems Visit a Kingdom of Shadows
Hoskote's poems describe a landscape of doubt and loss.
Art
The Last Testament of Michael Mazur
At the end of his life, Mazur wanted to evoke his passage into chaos, to compose his farewell.
Art
The Ghost of Roy Cohn
Subpoena powers can’t cure a diseased body politic.
Art
The Politics of the Gallery Display
Gaylen Gerber's Supports, on view at the Arts Club of Chicago, continues to raise questions about what happens to an object when we place it in a gallery.
Books
Adrian Piper in Her Own Words
Piper is the rare artist whose practice is informed by her skills as a philosopher.
Art
Caravaggio’s Mark of Madness
Caravaggio may have eluded a death sentence by fleeing to Malta and Sicily, but in the end there was nowhere to run.