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In anticipation of his new EP, Reflections, out Friday (October 8) via Shamir’s Accidental Popstar Records, Philly psych-folk singer-songwriter Grant Pavol returns today with a new single “No Disasters,” first premiered via FLOOD Magazine. After the lead, roseate single “Bright Skies,” the song today is a swirling psychedelic hash of skittering, electronically-programmed drums, acoustic guitars, and nervy atmospherics as lyrically, Grant invokes a sense of tense, agoraphobic dread.

Exhibition of recent paintings by Archie Rand opens at TOTAH Archie Rand, Jeremiah (detail), 2020. Acrylic on fabric, 42 × 38 inches (106.5 × 96.5 cm). NEW YORK, NY .-TOTAH presents Sweet Sixteen, featuring new paintings by Archie Rand, on view from July 14 through August 21, 2021. This is Rand’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The recent paintings of Archie Rand communicate an alternative history. The materiality of acrylic paint on canvas serves as the substrate for erotic hallucinations, equal parts grandiose and modest, playful and austere. Just like the carefully balanced, ot...

In Maya Lin's 'Ghost Forest,' the trees are talking back “Maya Lin: Ghost Forest,” in New York’s Madison Square Park, June 23, 2021. The installation in the heart of the park is the artist’s memorial to another war — the one against nature. Madeline Cass/The New York Times. by Holland Cotter (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- On a sultry summer day the trees across the street from my Bronx apartment are deep in conversation. Trees are, science tells us, social beings and do some of the same things we humans do, at least when we’re acting our best. They trade tips about health, news about weather. Th...

The Netflix special is a terrifying, frequently unhinged work of pandemic art. We missed you too. Sign up to our newsletter, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter, so you always know where to find us. Bo Burnham wants to eat himself alive. This has always been the prerogative of the stand-up, a multi-hyphenate talent who sings, writes, acts and directs. Burnham never makes a joke without immediately pointing out the ways in which it is a joke — not bridging the gap between his microphone and his adoring crowd but drawing attention to it with one long finger. That self-destruction is eviden...

“A Ghost in the Throat,” by Doireann Ni Ghriofa, is part memoir, part literary investigation of a 250-year-old poem.