Art Review
Tate Modern Loses the Plot With Theatre Picasso
The exhibition is all very meta — the audience are themselves the action and participants. Yet this device could be applied to any artist with the same result.
Wu Tsang
Performance
The Terrors of Whiteness in Wu Tsang's Moby Dick
The experimental film, accompanied by live music, pictures the ecocide that a violently extractive ideology of whiteness produces.
Art
Reimagining Queer Presence in Grand Museum Rooms
A commitment to trans subjects, and their queer communities, is manifested as a holding environment made approachable by our concern, grounded in intimacy and legacy, enfolding any viewer who will stop, listen, and receive love.
Film
Millennial Cinema Without the Cheap Stereotypes
We Can’t Even: Millennials on Film, a series of films at BAM about, by, and for millennials, is a rebuttal to the narratives that dominate the discourse around a generation's priorities and perspectives.
In Brief
Artists Julie Ault, Titus Kaphar, and Wu Tsang Awarded 2018 MacArthur "Genius" Grant
25 individuals across disciplines will receive $625,000 of unrestricted funds as part of the prestigious award.
In Brief
Guggenheim Announces Shortlist for 2018 Hugo Boss Prize
The artists being considered for one of the most prestigious and substantial prizes in contemporary art are “exploring urgent social issues, and providing new artistic vocabulary through which to examine personal and universal themes.”
Art
Artists Explore the Many Sides of Our 21st-Century Selves
LONDON — “Looks” is a slippery word.
Books
Your Worst Fear and Your Best Fantasy Traced Through Art History
Holding a sign that reads "I am your worst fear, I am your best fantasy," a photograph of a proud and defiant woman at a gay liberation march in the 1970s opens Phaidon's newly published Art & Queer Culture, illustrating the dual visions of queer identity by the field of art history.