Film
A Joan of Arc Film Brings the Saint Down to Earth
An expansive biopic, Jacques Rivette's newly restored 1994 film Joan the Maid focuses on Joan of Arc the human first — and Joan the myth, saint, and warrior second.
New York
Announcement
Summer of Know, an Evening Conversation Series at the Guggenheim
On select Tuesdays this summer, the series will host artists and practitioners in dialogue about urgent issues such as climate change and environmental justice, Asian American subjectivity in pop culture, and housing rights.
Art
Brice Marden's Intuitive Formalism
Each work in Marden's series Cold Mountain Studies is the trace of a transient intention, and their variety is potentially infinite.
Art
The Disturbing Greatness of Hyman Bloom
Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock considered Hyman Bloom to be America’s first Abstract Expressionist, a label, it should be pointed out, that the artist himself rejected.
In Brief
James Turrell Skyspace Reopens at MoMA PS1 After 6-Month Closure
The artist requested that the museum close the installation in January after construction on a neighboring luxury condo encroached on the work's view.
Art
What Does Radical Love Look Like?
When love is in full bloom, it goes everywhere and touches everything and in its nondiscrimination constitutes an attitude rarely seen or enacted in human story.
Art
The Women Photojournalists Who Blazed Trails in the 1940s and '50s
An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society presents the work of six female photographers who worked for LIFE magazine during its golden age.
Film
The Signature Themes in Abbas Kiarostami's Masterful Short Films
The IFC Center is running the largest retrospective to date of Abbas Kiarostami’s work, and its short film program is full of the director's masterfully rendered trademarks.
Film
The 13-Hour Movie La Flor Is Worth It
This labor of love was shot over the course of 10 years in around a dozen countries across South America, Europe, and Asia.
Art
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.
Film
Millennial Cinema Without the Cheap Stereotypes
We Can’t Even: Millennials on Film, a series of films at BAM about, by, and for millennials, is a rebuttal to the narratives that dominate the discourse around a generation's priorities and perspectives.
Art
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.