Books
What Do Art Critics Actually Do?
Artists, collectors, curators, and dealers are all needed for the system to function, but the role of critics is up for grabs.
Weekend
Art
Required Reading
This week, Ovid and pickup artists, photojournalism and #MeToo, sales in the music industry, pampered princelings, why you can’t stop looking at other people’s screens, and more.
Art
Self-Portraits in a Vanished World
Segedin’s is an art of self-examination that opens out onto a real, lived, and, in many ways, vanished world.
Art
The Graphite Hallucinations of Gray Foy
Through his subtle, intermittent anthropomorphizing of natural forms everything in Foy's meticulous drawings begins to border on the apparitional.
Art
Eddie Owens Martin's Transformation into an Outsider Saint
Appreciating Martin’s sense of identity as constantly shifting is central to understanding his art.
Art
Kavanaugh Dresses for Success
President Trump has pledged that any Supreme Court nominee he put forth would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Art
Suellen Rocca Turns an Inward Eye
Rocca's drawings evidence an interior gaze and the working out of psychological states.
Art
EJ Hill's Art for Bodies that Refuse to Comply
For EJ Hill, to stand and remember is an act of ultimate resistance.
Art
Yugoslavia's Complicated Modernism
The 20th-century architecture of Yugoslavia was the result of a concerted national effort to modernize and unify.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Nigeria's golden age, social justice and culture wars, are we too pessimistic for the World’s Fair, combatting manspreading, and more.
News
The Radical Possibility of Seeing What Is Front of You
All of Rackstraw Downes's work derives from the simple, everyday act of observing your surroundings.
Art
The Childhood Innocence of John Ashbery's Art
Ashbery’s primary subject matter concerns an alternate world where nothing goes permanently wrong, and where disasters are nothing more than pranks.