Weekend
March 1, 2020
The Disturbing, Enthralling, Pitiless Steve McQueen
The serious-minded artist-cum-filmmaker is enjoying a full retrospective at Tate Modern.
Michael Glover
Searching for Humanity in the Not-Quite-Human
Throughout his career Jon Pylypchuk has confronted the most awkward and gut-wrenching parts of being human.
Natalie Haddad
SPONSORED
Art on Paper Returns to Downtown Manhattan’s Pier 36 March 5–8, 2020
The fair will feature 95 galleries featuring top modern and contemporary paper-based art.
Clams Casino’s Mood Music
Casino’s instrumental music often projects an initial illusion of formlessness, all the better to surprise you with sneak details later.
Lucas Fagen
There Is Nothing United About the United States or the Art World
Peter Williams doesn’t make things easy for the viewer, and why should he?
John Yau
Two Plays by Downtown Legend María Irene Fornés
These plays depict a reality that seems familiar and plausible yet feels dreamlike, monumental, and mythical.
Paul David Young
Sculpting With Light, Drawing With Shadow
It’s hard to identify precedents for Christopher Wilmarth’s sculpture, which uses its banal modern materials purely abstractly.
David Carrier
Journalist Jeff Sharlet Turns His Attention to Visual Storytelling
Time and night form Sharlet’s central theme: people who inhabit the night, literally and figuratively.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Required Reading
This week, Ai Weiwei in Minneapolis, how museums can help people understand pandemics, what ‘politically correct art’ means, being a rich writer, how much animals sleep, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
Forward this newsletter to a friend!
If this email was forwarded to you, click here to subscribe
 |  |  |  |
