Comics
The Wonderfully Messy Mix of Art and Craft at Spring Break
A comic artist strolling through Spring Break spots a seersucker suit, spiders, and a giant sliced ham, among other curiosities.
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Art
Beer With a Painter: Pat Adams
Adams finds beauty in the earth and nature through layers of complication, chaos, and everyday labor.
Books
Two Books Rethink Publishing as a Radical Practice
Books from Inventory Press, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, and b_books reshape our understanding of publishing and librarianship.
Opinion
Why We Need Hybrid Film Festivals
If film festivals are genuinely interested in widening access to film, the lesson is clear: Don’t abandon hybrid festivals, but improve them and harness their potential to attract new and more diverse audiences.
Film
20 Years After the September 11th Attacks, What Does “Never Forget” Mean?
Much of what the media deems important coverage of the attacks is in fact retraumatizing gawking or empty nationalism.
Film
In Who You Think I Am, Juliette Binoche Transcends Mid-Life Crisis Stereotypes
Binoche plays a woman who is ultimately accountable for herself and doesn’t pretend to be any better than she is.
Art
See the Striking Photos that Competed for the Bird Photographer of the Year Awards
Mexican photographer Alejandro Prieto’s image of a roadrunner at the US-Mexico border took home the top prize.
Art
Who Owns the Earth?
This group show proposes fresh paradigms of land ownership and art making in contrast to the rugged individualism of much early Land Art.
Art
What Does It Mean to Exhibit Nature?
Like a creeping scent, Sean Raspet’s exhibition works its way through the viewer’s psyche almost imperceptibly.
Books
Mulholland Drive, Lushly Captured in Panorama
Photographer Karen Halverson captures the historic highway in slow, dense detail.
Film
After a Year Off, Experimental Film Returns to Toronto Film Fest
With works about student protests in India, colonialism in South Korea, the history of trains in cinema, and more, this edition of Wavelengths is the festival’s best in years.
Opinion
How Our Visual Culture of Credibility is Being Manipulated
The extreme views presented by orators are veiled by their adoption of design aesthetics typical of newscasters.