Art
A Little-Known Chapter of Ralph Humphrey’s Career
There is something inelegant and unstylish about these paintings.
Weekend
Art
Donald Trump’s Book of ABCs
A is for Abominable, B is for Bigoted…
Art
Bringing Milton Resnick Back into the Picture
The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation has opened with a must-see exhibition of 50 years of Resnick’s work.
Art
Glimmers of Modernism from a 19th-Century Bordello
A brothel customer’s photographs of 19th-century prostitution, made with sympathy and imagination.
Film
Catherine Sullivan’s X-Ray Dreams
Sullivan’s film, The Startled Faction (a sensitivity training), is a tumbling-together of social satire, utopian feminism, and anarchist agitprop.
Art
Required Reading
This week, an apartment block with movable walls, the magazine industry’s identity crisis, role of memory and monuments in Yerevan, Google's drive to kill the URL, the London banker who broke the world, and more.
Music
Mourning Aretha Franklin
The energy Franklin put into her singing suggests the existence of something to overcome, her swooping dynamics and shouts coming from a place of insecurity and hardship.
Art
Frank Bowling, or the Odd Man Out
After starting out as a figurative artist, Frank Bowling began pouring paint in 1973; he has always been the figure who doesn’t fit.
Art
Demotic Abstraction with a Twist
By concentrating on detail, which is a central feature of Barbara Takenaga’s work, she has gone against the reductive tendencies of Minimalism that still haunt painting.
Art
Cabinet of Horrors
They called him amoral, unmoored, and unprincipled.
Art
Elaine de Kooning’s Old House Is Art’s New Home
In East Hampton, the modern artist’s former residence is emerging as an unexpected cultural hub.
Books
Put On Sunglasses and Write a Poem
Almost every line in Chelsey Minnis’s Baby, I Don’t Care could have been lifted from a hard-boiled detective flick or a tough-talking screwball comedy.