Books
Maya Deren in Vivid Focus
Maya Deren: Choreographed for Camera depicts how the artist’s life and ideas cemented her place as a champion and influencer of culture.
Film
Film
MTV’s The Exhibit Needs a Cutthroat Judge
In episode three, the artists created works about the pandemic and bonded with each other, which is cute but doesn’t really make for good TV.
Film
Cauleen Smith’s Drylongso Depicts a Bygone Oakland
Smith’s 1998 film exudes the DIY charm of a low-budget, first-time feature while keenly depicting the complexities of both race- and gender-related inequalities.
Film
What Salamanders Tell Us About Our Future on Earth
A Common Sequence muses on the different ways that humans assess, categorize, understand, and often exploit the natural world.
Film
Seeing Brooklyn Through Su Friedrich's Lens
Today, screening in Manhattan in a partial retrospective of the queer filmmaker’s work, challenges us to look at what’s right in front of us.
Film
Where Were South Asian Dancers in the Oscars' "Best Song" Performance?
The ceremony’s rendition of the Indian Telugu-language song "Naatu Naatu" is indicative of under-representation across the industry, critics say.
Film
Achingly Intimate Doc About Ukrainian Orphans Insists on Hope
A House Made of Splinters bears witness not only to children’s ongoing trauma, but to their enduring ability to seek out and sustain their own support networks.
Film
Miami Film Festival Reveals South Florida's Cinema Crisis
The art-house movie theaters that long served as the festival’s screening venues now face extinction.
Film
Colorado Filmmakers Shine at Boulder International Film Festival
For its 2023 season, BIFF showed a total of 67 films, including an impressive 13 films by Colorado natives and four features from Sundance.
Film
Artists Tackle Social Media in Another Meh Episode of The Exhibit
Also, one contestant attempted three oil paintings in seven hours. It went as well as you can imagine.
Comics
Mike Leigh's BBC Films, Ranked
Leigh's films are class-conscious, prickly, strange, satirical, and often very funny.
Film
Hirshhorn’s The Exhibit Premieres With Inflatable Banana and Lots of Cringe
The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist is filled with awkward silences and art-world jargon.