The Return of Lorde

Lorde, the New Zealand-conceived pop star, came into the fire-lit parlor of her downtown Manhattan inn a couple of minutes past 11, apologizing for the delay of great importance — interesting story, she said. She'd been driving every day to a Greenwich Village recording studio, stopping without end at new music, however today U2, who had held the space, arrived and secured it. Lorde found a littler studio accessible more remote uptown, and however the move was badly arranged, she saw the funniness in being coincidentally ousted by Bono — it was only one more marker of how odd her life has been since she wound up plainly acclaimed, four years prior, at 16. "I really observed the Edge in the exercise center here," she said with a smile. "I contemplated saying something, however I chose, Nahhh/italianska."

Why Dana Schutz Painted Emmett Till

Dana Schutz's studio, in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn, may not be as calamitously muddled as Francis Bacon's utilized to be, yet there are days when it approaches. Last July, she was making depictions for a performance appear, in the fall, at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, and for the 2017 Whitney Biennial, in New York. Substantial and medium-sized canvases in differing phases of finish secured the majority of the divider space in the studio, a long, austere room that was at one time an auto-body shop, and the floor was a palimpsest of clothes, utilized paper palettes, brushes, metal tubs loaded with outdated containers of Old Holland oil paint, hued pencils and broken charcoal sticks, jars of dissolvable, spavined workmanship books, pages torn from magazines, packaged work dresses solid with paint, paper towels, a prelapsarian blast box, purge Roach Motel containers, and different flotsam and jetsam/italianska.