Film
Lucrecia Martel's Feminine Monsters
Three of the Argentine director's films are now on the Criterion Channel, and they demonstrate how she complicates ideas of female agency and power.
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Art
At 96 Years Old, Richard Mayhew Is Still Painting Transportive “Mindscapes”
The American painter was a member of the legendary artist group Spiral and continues to make art every day in his studio in Santa Cruz.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the newly selected Theodore Roosevelt President Library design, Cuties outrage, philanthropy's difficult relationship to social justice, climate migration in the US, and more.
Music
Taylor Swift's Quarantine Folktales
Swift's latest, Folklore, really is about being a sad rich person stuck at home.
Art
Albert Murray Talking Modernism, Race, and Jazz
Murray came of age at a time when brutal circumstances coincided with buoyant Modernity.
Art
An Old Painter Stares at His Hands
Georg Baselitz reflects on his own aging hands through the prism of all the art he has seen.
Art
Cosima von Bonin Takes Cute Art Seriously
Implicit throughout the artist's latest show is the tension between the feeling of failure and the struggle to be recognized and taken seriously, rather than erased.
Art
Robert Mangold's Emotional Optics
With his recent works, Mangold underscores a consciousness of mortality that he meets with a gracefulness that is breathtaking.
Art
A Painter for a Heated World
Given his red-dominated palette, I don’t think it is implausible to suggest that one of Frank Holliday’s subjects is conflagration — a world consumed by fire.
Art
In India, Women Artists Are Making Salient Work During the Pandemic
As the country entered lockdown, an urgent need to stay hopeful and inspired through the crisis emerged.
In Brief
Can You Spot a Social Media Troll?
This website is designed to help you learn more about trolls and how to spot them online.
Books
This Satire of Sports, Activism, and Policing Might Make You Laugh and Cry
Set in the aftermath of a Super Bowl victory, Ben Passmore’s Sports is Hell spotlights human folly, displaying the US at its worst and most ridiculous.