Will Fenstermaker

At the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a massive survey, focusing on the f…

Adam Curtis's latest film paints a picture of the world that is so complex, so dense, and so theoretical that…

One of the more speculative tales surrounding the Shroud of Turin, which supposedly depicts the face of Jesus…

The word has the sound of an incantation. Presto, changeo, manifesto.

At The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the artist's series of stoneware works offer a feminist critique of d…

The emperor of Gaza. A plain, blue car. Burning red suns and ancient weapons. A young girl on crutches. A man…

Rolling, pastel-hued hills stretch toward a low-hanging sun. Wisps of clouds explode out of the sky. Steep va…

The 1896 premiere of Ubu Roi in Paris was a violent affair. Alfred Jarry, the 23-year-old playwright, planted…

When Baaba Maal walked onstage wearing a stunning sky-blue boubou, he signaled his place in a historic lineag…

Five years ago, the Ethiopian artist Elias Sime, who is known for his sculpted aerial landscapes and river sc…

The camera, looking toward the skylights, pans down to follow the slow cascade of light (one hears a soft mur…

I first saw Arghavan Khosravi's lush and intimate paintings earlier this year at Four, a concise exhibition a…

I first learned that criticism was in crisis when I was enrolled at the MFA art criticism and writing program…

The works in Mira Schor's California Paintings: 1971-1973 were made during the artist's time as a graduate st…

Picture, if you can, the history of art. What does it look like? You can probably call up certain images and …

Many years from now, but surely fewer than one wants to think, those of us who survive ecological collapse an…

A few years ago, I found myself hunting in a bookstore for the last copy of Wolfgang Hilbig's latest translat…

Talking with Seth Price can feel like circumscribing an amoeba. One is aware of protean boundaries, but also …

There can never be a complete history of the internet because the internet is, to a degree, atemporal-like cu…

Despots, from those who composed the efficiently murderous junta that ruled Argentina to the petty kakistocra…