Paul D'Agostino
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Crafty Hats: Jack White’s Visual Art Website Is a Pleasant Surprise
Rock and roll, blues, garage folk, and maybe something along the lines of country-infused barn punk might be among the descriptors one would come up with when reflecting on Jack White’s ranging genre tendencies as a musician. He’s broadly polyphonic, in other words, whether playing in bands, cutting tracks on his own or producing tunes […] → Read More
SIN, a Gritty and Sublime Biopic of Michelangelo
Andrei Konchalovsky’s film depicts an artist full of ambition, paranoia, loathing, and regret. → Read More
Don DeLillo’s Dark Prism
In his deftly hewn new novel, The Silence, DeLillo disconnects us from our devices, wreaking havoc on our human fragility. → Read More
A Frankenstein for the Forever Wars
Depraved, a soulful indie take on Frankenstein, proves the perennial relevance of Mary Shelley’s monstrous creation. → Read More
Jim Osman’s Off-Kilter Arcadia
Osman's suite of new sculptures might look like buildings, or the things within buildings: furniture, toyish tools, and strange-ified objects of interior design. → Read More
Instagram Cats
Sharon Butler’s new paintings based on iPad drawings are telling you, quite frankly, that surfaces matter. → Read More
Something Happened in DC
Or did it? → Read More
Cuba at the Cusp
The images that foreshadow the turmoil of the Cuban Revolution jar you back to the precariousness of our times. → Read More
For the Love of Leonardo
A slew of new books rethinks the Renaissance in general and Leonardo da Vinci in particular. → Read More
A Haitian Artist’s Mesmerizing Eyes
Didier William's slithery forms surge forth and recede within a sphere of visual gravitas — heaving, throbbing, breathing. → Read More
Disarming North Korea With Pizza and Sports
What could Dennis Rodman, kimchee pizza, and the Olympic Committee do for world peace? → Read More
A Spectacle of Fables and Fascism
In a new documentary, Tuscan townspeople turn the crises of their lives into the stuff of drama. → Read More
A World in Crisis: Bending, Quaking, Breaking
The Great Regression, edited by Heinrich Geiselberger, portrays the state of international politics as already hellbent. → Read More
Cloud Blossoms
The desire to make corny, mindless drawings had its partial impetus in a need to get away from the cerebrally crushing news cycle that day, because it was a day in 2017, and nearly every day of the news cycle has been like that this year. → Read More
Flipping Scripts: Art Notes for 2017
Last week I posted a lengthy, ambling, ultimately perhaps tiresomely discursive roundup of 2016 art highlights. As you’ll likely recall → Read More
Philogyny First: Female Artists Heat Up Winter
It's time for philogyny to enter the national vocabulary. → Read More
Bushwick Open Studios: Field Notes & Takeaways
It was a somewhat grey and rainy, at times even almost chilly weekend in the city, but none of that → Read More
Gallery Rounds: Heavily BK
There was a point earlier this month when I realized I’d seen 82 new gallery shows in ten days. I → Read More
Spotlit: The TSA Network
Putting the spotlight on arts collective Tiger Strikes Asteroid. → Read More
Gallery Rounds: Up & Underway
The new exhibition season in NYC is not yet a week old, but it’s fair to say that it’s already, → Read More