Culture Trust

Columns

Quiet Down

Madeleine Crum

February 21, 2019

Two new books ask: When is living quietly an act of protest?

Art Killed Me

Rachel Wetzler

February 07, 2019

Velvet Buzzsaw’s superfluous gallery of grotesques.

Social Cyborgs

Benjamin Schneider

January 31, 2019

Participating in the network from across the uncanny valley, these artists seek to critique Instagram from the inside.

HyperNovelization

Olivia Parkes

January 30, 2019

Olga Slavnikova’s "The Man Who Couldn’t Die" and the post-Soviet reality deficit.

A Gender Study

Becca Rothfeld

January 28, 2019

A manipulative and self-important man is as ugly and generic as any Marriott.

Nothing to Do with Art

Rachel Wetzler

January 17, 2019

Gary Indiana's Vile Days revisits his Village Voice art column from the 1980s, which found him skewering the art world's grotesque superficiality.

Cheap Thrills in the Blackout Zone

Nathan Taylor Pemberton

January 14, 2019

Rather than a searing indictment, Adam McKay's Vice is a well-intentioned homage to power itself.

Rebel Without Applause

Philippa Snow

January 10, 2019

In The House That Jack Built, Lars von Trier squanders his brilliance for shock.

Exit Through the Novelty Exhibition

Kyle Paoletta

January 04, 2019

Novelty exhibitions are onanistic celebrations of their subjects, and they're all the rage in the art world.

The Rise of the Mindful Museum

Michael Friedrich

January 03, 2019

Always a site of contemplation, the art museum has lately seized on mindfulness as a wellness trend—and a marketing strategy.

Waste Not, Want Not

Madeleine Wattenbarger

December 19, 2018

If the Zero Waste movement wants to move beyond green environmentalism, it has to get off Instagram and into the world.

Built to Flail

Ben Schwartz

December 18, 2018

Woe to any comedian tapped to host the humorphobic White House Correspondents' Dinner or the Oscars.