Art Review
For EJ Hill, Art Is an Act of Faith
Without irony, Hill draws on his Catholic upbringing in his current solo exhibition to cultivate a secular spirituality and a space for hope.
Reviews
Film Review
Who Are Museums Really For? And Can We Change Our Minds?
The film Binnigula’sa’ (Ancient Zapotec People) asks the questions: Who are the rightful custodians of artifacts, and what is the responsibility of museums to local communities?
Art Review
Take a Trip Down the Catwalk With Andy Warhol
With fashion-themed art from the 1950s and ’60s, Andy Warhol: Fashion feels like a private, over-the-shoulder glimpse of Warhol at work.
Art Review
Jillian Conrad Redefines the Limits of Drawing
Her sculptural “drawings" mark the distance between what we see and how we name it, drawing connections across time and space.
Art Review
Hande Sever Tells a Story of War and Art
The artist mines archives of conquest and imperialism in her native Turkey to produce multifaceted displays that entangle violent histories with personal narratives.
Art Review
How the Moomins Showed Us a More Compassionate World
At the Brooklyn Public Library, an exhibition on queer Finnish artist Tove Jansson's beloved characters reminds visitors of all ages that justice and joy are within our grasp.
Art Review
The Berlin Biennale's Complicit Silence
It fails to directly address the German state’s repression of pro-Palestine expression, even as many of its works model “safer” forms of resistance.
Art Review
Twenty Years of Life in Chinatown
Thomas Holton photographed the Lam family for two decades, drawing attention not only to where but also how they live.
Art Review
The Poetic Optimism of Latina Lesbian Activism
An exhibition centers efforts in Los Angeles from the 1980s to the 2000s to chart an ongoing struggle for liberation.
Art Review
Memory Becomes Form in the Art of Candida Alvarez
Abstraction and representation bleed into one another in the same way that memories momentarily coagulate into images before dissolving again.
Art Review
A Paean to the Bygone “Borscht Belt”
Marisa J. Futernick creates fictions inspired by the Catskills, a vacation destination for midcentury Jewish families.
Book Review
How Helen Chadwick Took the Piss Out of Art
A biography of the late artist, who used everything from raw meat to bubbling chocolate, acts as an anecdote to historical amnesia around her pioneering material experimentation.