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An Artist's Homage to Family Histories and Feminism in Beirut
Mounira al-Solh resists homogenizing narratives about Arab women in her work's specificity and its rejection of expected characters or sensationalized accounts.
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Monthly Event Hopes to Unify Long Island City Art Spaces
Gallery Nights, organized by LIC Arts Open, brings neighborhood art spaces together every month for after-hour events and exhibitions, encouraging connectivity between cultural spaces and the local community.
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A Summer Series of Comedy, Improv, Film, and Performance at Blum & Poe
>BTWN< kicks off with a night of comedy, hosted by artist and comedian Casey Jane Ellison.
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What Centuries of Damage to Ancient Egyptian Artifacts Might Mean
The power relations presented in an exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation are selective. We get a discussion of ancient power — but what about the modern power to acquire these objects regardless of legal or ethical concerns?
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Simone Leigh's Debris of Silence
Simone Leigh's work, on view at the Guggenheim Museum, is inhibiting in a particularly difficult way: it doesn’t seduce; it doesn’t explain, it doesn’t rely on interpretation; it doesn’t care what I think.
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An Experimental Puppetry Troupe Crafts Their Hopeful Vision
The Del Hierro brothers craft their costumes from polyurethane foam, which they find in whatever city they happen to be in, tearing into discarded couches or mattresses and ripping out the "meat" inside.
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An Essential History Immortalized in the Archive of Ebony and Jet
The archive of Ebony and Jet is a treasure trove of visual culture; its donation to the National Museum of African American History and Culture and Getty Research Institute will allow unprecedented access to decades of Black American history.
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"America" as Filmed by Directors From Outside the United States
Film at Lincoln Center's Another Country: Outsider Visions of America offers a smorgasbord of wildly disparate cinema by foreign and immigrant directors you wouldn't normally consider in the same conversation.
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The Breathtakingly Subtle Moments in Kyoto Animation's Films
No terrorist attack could diminish the deeply personal work of Kyoto Animation, a firm that has always championed the sophisticated storytelling of its women animators.
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David Hammons Returns to LA With Wicked Tricks and Subtle Jabs
Imagining his first impression of the city he once called home, I suspect Hammons would have said: “You’ve let yourself go.” Conversely, he could have easily said, “I see you haven’t changed.”
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A Caribbean Present Steeped in a Colonial Past
In Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox, ten artists explore the implications of colonialism's violent legacy.
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Required Reading
This week, Mapplethorpe's not-so-original images, indigo in ancient Peru, White Girl Art bingo, Western Civilization and white nationalism, a real life Snow White, and more.