9+ hour, 18+ min ago  (34+ words) Poetry by Terrance Hayes: "The blackfly breeds in streams & rivers / during the dog days of summer, / but cannot survive on sadness like the housefly." On a day so hot not even the housefly...

1+ year, 1+ day ago  (238+ words) The New Art: American Photography, 18391910," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through July 20th, is a big, sprawling show of work from the medium's era of busy development, as one format improved. .. But the vernacular and ahistorical images are what give…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1113+ words) The women pop up again and again, in canvas after canvas, like a random intrusive thought that refuses to go away, or a masturbatory fixation that both disturbs and excites, Naomi Fry writes. I happened to learn of Export's death…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (603+ words) The New Yorker In the dark, predawn hours of December 3, 1984, a dense cloud of poisonous gas leaked from a pesticide plant and, borne on a soft, northern wind, enveloped Bhopal, a city in central India. It was wedding season, and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (634+ words) Zachary Fine reviews a new exhibition of works by the late Italian painter, at L'vy Gorvy Dayan, in New York. When Gnoli was a child, his mother, a ceramicist, encouraged his early talent for drawing, while his father educated him…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (51+ words) The photographer chronicled Mexico's culture of public rituals, including those surrounding Santa Muerte and the Catholic Church, in pictures with no small amount of homoeroticism, Chris Wiley writes. A scientist with a Ph. D. from Harvard fatally shot three of her…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1250+ words) Also: Jennifer Tilly in the surreal world of "The Adding Machine," New York City Ballet's spring season, Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel in "Mother Mary," and more. Without overplaying Armstrong's key role in the Family of Nan (Goldin; they were…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (18+ words) The New Yorker This is drawn from, "Names and Faces: A Graphic Memoir....

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (180+ words) Tad's specialty was the Profile'in particular, Profiles of modern artists. For nearly seventy years, he filled this magazine with portraits of the creative imaginations who thrilled him the most, from Marcel Duchamp to, just recently, Tala Madani and Rashid Johnson....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (158+ words) But hearts are fickle. In the spring of 1857, Oldoini was banished from court, following speculation that she was involved in an assassination attempt on Napoleon, which took place as he left her residence. Oldoini separated from her husband and moved…...