Faith
...faith in the unseen while worshipping visibility itself,” she writes. Like materials for an altars the Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera inspired experiences of the divine, which none other than Ansel...
It's all the streets you crossed, not so long ago
...ropes, dentist utensils, broken bones and wax materials inside the freezers, a machine with an X-ray emblem on it, classified documents stored in conditions conductive to propagation, and high dose...
Splay Attention
...photo by Ryan McNamara The best of a recent performance art festival takes seriously contemporary ways of looking at art 1. Materials for a review of Performa 13...
Goodnight
...writes in this latest issue, the half-sleep of an early morning can crack open the unconsciousness of the working day and allow a certain rare access to truth. In those...
The Newer Inquirers
...The team behind The New Inquiry is always mutating and evolving, and it's about time we reveal the latest additions. Meet our new friends: Adrian Chen Associate Editor As...
Curb Your Moralia
...a revisionary project for the American sitcom that coincided with the rather colonial project of reality programming in the past decade of television. However, with these other comedies ending or...
Blogs Round Up
...year, as selected for the New York Times by “people in an around the world of graphic design.” I love John Gall’s cover for Houellebecq’s latest (slide 1) and Keith...
Quantum Drift
...on a collaboration. He taught her to map algorithms in pretty geometric patterns, she helped organize the notes for his latest thought experiment, and they talked, ramblingly, for hours at...
Scream Queens
...girl is his latest experiment. In his letter to Laemmle, Joy wrote, “Our feeling is that the screaming of the woman … is overstressed.” But it is not the woman’s...
This Week in Art Crime
...travelling on the Oxenholme to Penrith train. The latest “sighting” comes from Cockermouth where Banksy is alleged to have popped into Wild Zucchinis restaurant on 19 January to admire the...
Pray for Chic
...heterogeneous body of work. The artist, 30, is a Bushwick-living autodidact who performs icon worship with the twisted élan of a latter-day Mary Magdalene. Her latest two person show with...
Sunday Reading
...Novelists on Why They Write Empire Bakuba - "Kwasa Kwasa," Syllart Production Mother’s boys: conversations with the parents of Russia’s neo-Nazis Praying while Shi’a: the NYPD’s latest religious profiling scandal...
Staying on Their Toes
...Musicians pace to and fro, humming snatches of the latest sonata. Actors grimace and puff their chests and declare their love in stentorian tones. White and soft as cream puffs,...
Google's Macchia
...might come of it. I’m watching to see what other photographers and artists can create using this latest manifestation of Big Data. As usual, they will have to navigate between...
Fan Nonfiction
Heroic tales about video-game production mask how the hobby holds both its audience and performers captive
Anne Boyer & Matias Viegener @ The Poetry Project 10/2
...A reading featuring: Anne Boyer | Works include Anne Boyer’s Good Apocalypse, The 2000?s, My Common Heart, The Romance of Happy Workers and more. Her latest work, A Form...