Our May 15 issue—the Art Issue—is now online, with Susan Tallman on warp and weft, Ingrid D. Rowland on Vitruvius, Jerome Groopman on antivaccine lunacy, Martin Filler on the new Frick, Julian Bell on art in an age of crisis, Lisa Halliday on Claire Messud, Heather O’Donnell on the Morgan librarian, Noah Feldman on the rule of law, Jarrett Earnest on fancy furnishings, Madeleine Thien on Fang Fang, Coco Fusco on Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jed Perl on Surrealism, poems by Ben Lerner and Carmen Boullosa, and much more.
Julian Bell
Internalizing the Crises
Joseph Leo Koerner’s latest book considers what art becomes when politics has been stripped down to relations of force.
Susan Tallman
String Theory
Two exhibitions focused on weaving go beyond the functional, the folkloric, and the feminine, tracking fiber’s escape from the connotations of the grid.
Jarrett Earnest
Art to Sit On
For the past forty years people have enjoyed chairs, tables, and benches in public places across North America without realizing they are part of Scott Burton’s radical artistic vision.
Today at 5 pm EDT
Vanishing Rights: Immigration, Deportation,
and the Rhetoric of Invasion
New York Review contributors Francisco Cantú, Julia Preston, and Héctor Tobar join Fintan O’Toole for a conversation on how the battle for immigration rights affects us all. Registration closes at 3:30 pm EDT.
Martin Filler
The Frick Reinvigorated
In an ambitious and long-overdue renovation, the architect Annabelle Selldorf attempted to harmonize with the Frick’s Classical aesthetic while asserting her Modernist credentials.
Noah Feldman
The Last Bulwark
The fate of our democracy today depends on the judiciary’s commitments to liberty, constitutionalism, and legality.
On the NYR Online
Joshua Leifer
Reoccupying Gaza
A consensus has by now emerged among Israel’s leaders that the country’s army will take direct, long-term control of the Strip—and attempt to expel its inhabitants.
Radhika Jones, interviewed by Merve Emre
Past the Illusion
“If you’re being interviewed by someone incisive and thoughtful, it might actually push you to think about something in your own life or in your own work in a different way, and that’s exciting to me.”
Daniel Mendelsohn in Conversation with Fareed Zakaria
The New York Review’s Editor-at-Large, Daniel Mendelsohn, launches his landmark new translation of Homer’s most popular epic.
Tuesday, April 29 at 6 PM, Rizzoli Bookstore, NYC
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