Film
A Bruce Mau Documentary Can’t Explain What the Man Does
MAU is too charmed by its subject to nail down what he has achieved, or why people should even care about him in the first place.
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Art
Multiple Realities of Abstract Art at the Southeast Queens Biennial
A poetic sense of materials united the artists of the 2022 Southeast Queens Biennial in New York.
Art
Soft Scenes of a Rough Life of Labor
Daisuke Fukunaga depicts Japanese workers as tired but happy. Are they, really?
Art
Welcome to Your Place in the Multiverse
Jean Lowe’s work parodies our most banal behaviors by inviting us to consume images of our own consumption.
News
Documenta Curators Rebut “Bad-Faith” Antisemitism Allegations
“It became clear that the accusations made against documenta fifteen and the forum itself currently render a free and productive discussion impossible,” the group ruangrupa wrote in a missive.
News
A Lower East Side Gallery Highlights Untold Abortion Stories
As reproductive freedom hangs in the balance, Cindy Rucker Gallery held a three-day festival focused on women’s various experiences with abortion and artworks inspired by this fundamental right.
News
The Guggenheim Museum Finally Drops the Sackler Name
London's National Gallery has announced it will also remove the disgraced family's name from its halls.
Podcast
The Cartoonist the US Right-Wing Political Establishment Loves to Hate
Eli Valley is one of the best American cartoonists and the political elite can’t stand his viral comics that pack a punch.
Art
The Jewish Influences of Eli Valley's Visceral Political Cartoons
When the news gets appalling enough, Valley will show you the grotesquerie, and make you feel it.
Film
How the Marvel Cinematic Universe Exploits Comic Book Artists
Films based on Marvel Comics superheroes have made billions. Yet the artists and writers who created these characters get a pittance, if that.
Performance
The Terrors of Whiteness in Wu Tsang's Moby Dick
The experimental film, accompanied by live music, pictures the ecocide that a violently extractive ideology of whiteness produces.
Art
Unearthing Austin's Overlooked Chicano Art History
A new exhibition at the Mexic-Arte Museum reveals the crucial but under-recognized role that the Chicano art movement played in Austin’s history and culture.