Tag: art

Five longreads about the iconoclastic American writer, director, and activist.

The couple who saved an imprisoned artist’s life — and the extraordinary gift he gave in return.

“In art and grief there are days you’re not proud of, days the emotions turn ugly, days the images don’t turn out the way you want. But that’s the human in us, and it belongs in the process. “

“Darkness obscures and sunlight reveals, but dusk—that liminal moment in between—murmurs suggestions.”

“Is there anyone who doesn’t sometimes imagine an audience for even the most unremarkable moments of her life?”

Emily Flake reflects on the shifting nature of magic and power in middle age.

With physical distancing the order of the day as COVID-19 spreads, cultural locales — sites for communal experiences, like museums and theaters — are emptying out. What are we sharing if we’re not sharing these spaces? And were we really sharing them to begin with?

Sarah Menkedick examines the perils inherent in trying to earn a living as a full-time writer.

What happens when ordinary people play God to strangers? Leora Smith explores the history of one of the oldest art installations at Burning Man and the conversations that unfold there.

Emma Jacobs takes us on an illustrated journey of Hugo’s writing life in exile on Guernsey, where he completed Les Misérables.

“I thought for sure, I’ll never write about Rilke again. I’m done with Rilke! I’m sick of Rilke! Rilke — no more. But then the other day … I just started researching something about Rilke.”

In “Time Is a Thing the Body Moves Through,” T Fleischmann resists metaphor, even as they reflect on the metaphor-saturated work of Félix González-Torres.

There’s a direct line from missing and murdered indigenous women to the repression of Native women’s contributions to art and culture, but those long-silenced voices are now making themselves heard.

In a new book, Camille Laurens examines the life of the model for Degas’ masterpiece, “Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen.” But there’s still so much we don’t know.

The attention economy is killing us and the planet. Artist and writer Jenny Odell talks about why slowing down could be the only way to survive.

As a semi-professional dog walker in Paris, expat Kate Gavino has found a comfortable way to learn French.

We’re gonna need more bubble wrap.

I’ve never known what it means to feel Jewish, but I still have a past — I have György Román, who painted dreams and saw nightmares.

Beat poet and City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 100 on March 24. Here’s a reading list to celebrate the centenarian.

When asked if there was “anything people don’t understand” about him, Gorey responded: “Yes. No. Yes. No.” A new biography by Mark Dery attempts to sort myth from reality.

At an art exhibit exploring black models through Western art, Morgan Jerkins finds historical evidence of the white supremacist definitions of beauty Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom identifies in ‘Thick: and Other Essays.’

Welcome to Warhol’s world.

Carrie Mae Weems may be our best contemporary photographer.

Williams’ paintings explored love, desire, and loss, too.

Accompanying a contestant to a pro-level Galaga tournament to discover how many digital space bugs you have to destroy to find renown, community, and a modicum of inner peace.

Carolita Johnson looks back on the many ways she’s tried to juggle work with her *work.*

Adrian Piper’s body of work encourages audiences to think critically about race, gender, and power, and to engage with their own perceptions.

Henry Taylor’s portraits are sacred objects that lovingly center black subjects and black interiority.

“Key West’s brand of camp reflects Wolkowsky’s understanding — never on the nose, always sideways, a place where anonymity feels like an innate right.”

In the first war, Joseph Gray used his art to reveal his fellow soldiers. In the next war, he used it to hide them.