Art
Reclaiming Agency Over Trauma
In The Listening Takes, Elisabeth Subrin centers actress Maria Schneider's refusal to discuss a non-consensual sex scene in Last Tango in Paris.
Review
Art
Marcelo Pombo in the Age of Neoliberalism
A new exhibition presents new works by the Argentinian artist alongside drawings from his days as a gay rights activist in the 1980s.
Books
Helen Cammock’s Love Letter to New Orleans
In a vividly illustrated artist's book, Cammock breaks through the fourth wall of the page to present the city as a composition of energies.
Art
What Survivance Means for Indigenous Artists
Speaking with Light addresses an Indigenous audience with a subtler message: we are now in the process of reclaiming our own representation.
Art
Curtis Cuffie's Precarious Life and Art
He embraced the uncertainty of his environs, knowingly erecting his assemblage sculptures in areas subject to police raids.
Art
Tsherin Sherpa's "Corrupted" Thangka Art
In Sherpa's art, Tibet and California, thangka and pop art, Buddha and Mickey Mouse mingle and morph to create a new visual language.
Art
The Joys of Watching Paint Dry
In contrast to the speed and bravura of gestural abstraction, new.shiver slows time, and invites viewers to ponder how one might shape time passing.
Art
Artists on Basketball and Its Discontents
Hoop Dreams: Basketball and Contemporary Art both celebrates and critiques a game that has grown into a global mega-industry.
Film
The A-Lot-Ness of Little Richard
Little Richard: I Am Everything honors the a-lot-ness that made him a 20th-century pioneer, while acknowledging the bumps along the trail he blazed.
Art
It’s Selfie Season at Manhattan’s High Line
Artist Pamela Rosenkranz’s glowing pink and red tree sculpture is sure to become an Instagram hit, and that’s okay.
Art
Notes on the Soul of New Orleans
Helen Cammock’s solo exhibition is an array of visual poems, ceramics, and even the sound of her trumpet, which she began practicing in the city.
Art
Mokha Laget’s Visual Paradoxes
Her paintings suggest exploded-view diagrams of parts that don’t fit together, as if the shapes are derived from a pleasantly illogical Jenga puzzle.