Art
A Painter of a Different Magnitude
Catherine Murphy makes paintings that get under my skin, that haunt me, that seem inexhaustible and mysterious.
Weekend
Art
Trump Crashes to Earth
The Republicans scatter like rats.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Joan Semmel
“How could I make work that was sexual from a woman’s point of view, that would not turn a woman off, as so much of pornography did?”
Books
Marcel Proust’s Dream of Art
Proust’s mid-career struggles with writing led him to art criticism, which provides clues to the qualities prized by readers of In Search of Lost Time.
Art
Emory Douglas's Language of Revolution
Douglas’s historical and new works, shown alongside pieces by younger artists, draw a line of influence between the two generations and establish a community of shared concerns.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the world's most beautiful libraries, what art can do that journalism can't, the future of surveillance, leaving Instagram, and more.
Music
On the Margins of Country Music
We’re witnessing a transitional moment for the country music genre that opens up space for weirdness and experimentation.
Art
Paintings of Bodily Residue and Extra-Long Tongues
In Emily Furr’s paintings, objects penetrate the openings of other objects, but the body is nowhere to be seen.
Art
The Power of Painterly Innocence
Billy White’s artistic kinships seem to be more personal and experiential than cultural or racial.
Art
Channeling Our Collective Fury
There is an old adage that nothing brings people closer together than discovering that they hate the same person.
Art
"We Live in a Nuthouse!": Zero Mostel on Art, Politics and America
Mostel perceives that drip paintings can express the scrambled feeling in your mind when you hear the federal government say that you can survive a nuclear war.
Art
Refuse Transformed: Reuse as Social Repair
These assemblages showcase art’s power and, poignantly its limitations, to effect material transformations.