Reviews Claire Bishop’s New Book Argues Technology Changed Attention Spans—and Shows How Artists Have Adapted Disordered Attention posits that our phones have become a kind of "prosthesis for viewing" art. By Emily Watlington Jun 6, 2024 7:00 am
Reviews Legacy Russell’s ‘Black Meme’ Critiques Representations of Black Culture—But Doesn’t Chart a Way Forward The book is a history of dispossession and cultural production that have molded our evolving media landscape. By Shanti Escalante-De Mattei May 8, 2024 11:07 am
Columns A New Book, ‘Art Monsters,’ Shows the Impact of Feminist Art on Formal Innovation The kind of feminist art Elkin advocates is "not always polemical but often provisional." By Emily Watlington Nov 13, 2023 7:00 am
Columns How a Formerly Deserted Waterfront Neighborhood Attracted a Cast of Young Artists to Lower Manhattan in the Mid-20th Century A compelling history of the fertile 1950s-'60s firmament surveys Lower Manhattan's Coenties Slip. By Walker Downey Aug 1, 2023 10:00 am
Columns How Are Art Historians Using AI? A new book offers an unconvincing look at the art historical implications of machine learning. By Sonja Drimmer May 23, 2023 11:27 am
Reviews A Color for Our Times: “Safety Orange” Considers a Curious Hue A new theoretical text convincingly argues that orange is the new red, white, and blue. By Emily Watlington Aug 1, 2022 6:37 pm
Reviews Restitution’s First Wave: Bénédicte Savoy’s “Africa’s Struggle for Its Art” A new book details how the repatriation debates got their start in postcolonial Africa. By Zoé Samudzi Apr 7, 2022 12:42 pm
News Battle Over Robert Indiana’s Multimillion-Dollar Estate Explored in New Book Bob Keyes's The Isolation Artist attempts to peel back layers of mystery surrounding the artist's final years. By Alex Greenberger Sep 9, 2021 2:01 pm
Reviews A Book Nominally about Rubens Offers an Honest Portrait of the Way the Author’s Mind Works—and Sometimes Doesn’t Morgan Meis doesn't make points so much as bellow them with varying levels of coherence. By Jackson Arn Jul 1, 2020 5:42 pm
Reviews Carceral Aesthetics: The Conditions of Making Art in Prison Nicole R. Fleetwood's new book explores prison art and the broader visual culture of incarceration. By Jackie Wang Jun 18, 2020 6:13 pm