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Latinx and Filipinx Diasporas Unite in a New Exhibition
Through their personal histories, artists participating in the exhibition Cultural Cousins highlight the unremarked kinship between the two communities in an artist talk.
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Cut Canvases Give Voice to Women's Bodies
The phonetic title of Cristina Camacho's /ˈvʌlvə/ seems to capture the vulva just before it solidifies into a signifier, renewing its possibilities of meaning production.
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Interpreting the Beasts of the Middle Ages
Animals were an important part of the everyday lives of ancient and medieval people, whether they were real or imagined, and their literary use in the Middle Ages formed a moral language.
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Required Reading
This week, "Pavilion Le Corbusier" reopens in Zurich, more critics of color, genocide scholars rebuke the Holocaust Museum, a list of the concentration camps, and more.
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Navigating the Overload at the Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale’s official exhibition, May You Live In Interesting Times, presents art that speaks to the present, not in the direct fashion of journalism, but in ways that can challenge existing habits of thought.
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Mo Kong Maps a Post-Climate Change Future
Kong’s background as a recent Chinese immigrant and, especially, a former investigative reporter help account for the exhibition’s methods and mood.
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A German Artist’s Notes From Underground
Mischa Leinkauf’s images of subterranean urban worlds are formally arresting and packed with metaphorical meaning.
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Walt Whitman's Sensuality and Self-Promotion
Whitman’s poetry feels inseparable from his physical presence, his body itself, as does the work of few other poets.
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Garry Winogrand in Living Color
If the nostalgic atmosphere of the photographer's black-and-white images threatens to obscure his compositional acuity these Kodachrome slides dispel it handily.
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Dana Powell and the Pleasures of Restraint
Do not mistake small size of Powell’s paintings for modesty; she wants to draw us in, to make works that can sustain close looking.
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Balancing the Weight of Provenance
One of the first things that Neckles does with her work here is convey where her head is at, yet there’s still much in this exhibition that is enigmatic.
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How One Meme Reveals the Difference in How Humans and AI "See"
As AI technology grows more sophisticated, neural networks can generate pictures people are comfortable looking at. It takes a surreal reject of an image to remind us of how differently a computer perceives the world.