Hands Down, This 89-Year-Old Collector Has the Coolest Apartment in NYC

From Bruce Nauman to Do-Ho Suh sculptures, Henry Buhl’s SoHo loft is decorated entirely with artworks about one thing: hands.

Hakim Bishara

A Photographer Shows Deference For Sublime, Endangered Coastlines

Thomas Joshua Cooper has feverishly circumnavigated the globe in an effort to chart the Atlantic basin. His recent photos of the California coast, subject to wildfires and drilling, feel all the more poignant.

Dana Ostrander

Jeffrey Gibson’s Artistic Remixes, From Song Lyrics to Indigenous Craft

Gibson’s ongoing explorations of identity and art history have produced a dizzying range of forms over the course of his career.

Laura Raicovich

Baseera Khan’s Vivid, Anti-Imperialist Odes

snake skin is a corporeal study of the body politic, in which Khan wields the tools of cultural autopsy in her dissections of ancient ruins and traditions.

Billy Anania

Merce Cunningham Takes the Book Out of the Box

More of an art- or archival collection than a typical book, Cunnigham’s recently reissued Changes gathers sketches, notes, photographs, programs, and all other manner of ephemera in a creative package.

Abbey Bender

Hunter College Presents Part II of the Fall 2019 Thesis Exhibition

laissez faire et laissez passer structures itself as a self-conscious strike-out and strike-through — an attempt to erode a compromised structure while ineluctably reproducing it. On view from December 12 to January 4, 2020.

Imagining Utopia, Just Over the Horizon

The final exhibition of a trilogy at the Ford Foundation gallery imagines that our best selves have yet to be. They are on the horizon and the people who have been most oppressed, most ignored, and rejected will lead us all there.

Seph Rodney

Forensic Architecture Joins Journalists to Depict Syria’s Use of Chemical Weapons

Investigative journalism website Bellingcat, with the help of research group Forensic Architecture, seeks to put an end to the theories that the harrowing chemical attack against civilians in April 2017 was a “false-flag operation.”

Hakim Bishara

A Film Festival Illuminates the Experimental Edge of Appropriation Cinema

Although its roots go back more than half a century, in an era of “fake news” and “deep fakes,” appropriation cinema can be seen as a critical voice of resistance.

Matt Stromberg

Changing the Tune of Globalization

In her new book on changing patterns of cultural production and consumption, Fatima Butto posits that it’s not American pop songs but K-Pop that has become the soundtrack of globalization.