Art
Memories of a Long-Gone, Gritty New York
Bill Rice’s paintings are glimpses of Manhattan’s old East Village of crime, abandonment, cruising, and hanging out.
Review
Film
A Film to Watch With Closed Eyes
Director Sam Green wants viewers to fully engage their ears in a sonic journey of 32 soundscapes.
Art
Matt Bollinger, Painter of the Forgotten
By dealing with class in his art, Bollinger touches on the strain infecting the current “us and them” situation in the United States.
Art
Working Toward a Politics of Borderlessness
Artists in Australia and South Asia highlight the atrocities of caste-based discrimination and make a statement against colonial power.
Art
Los Angeles as a Cultural Stir Fry
Amir H. Fallah's beautiful objects reflect a shadow side, a decay of borders, trust, and stability that comes with the trauma of immigration.
Art
An Eclectic Bunch at ArtCenter's Open Studios
The interdisciplinary and experimental nature of the ArtCenter College of Design’s graduate art program was on full display at its MFA Open Studios.
Books
Beware the Rise of Anti-Anti-Colonialism
Two new books by Nigel Biggar and Adam Kuper advocate for wilful amnesia and collective repression of British colonial brutality.
Art
What Does a Post-Hurricane World Look Like?
An exhibition of contemporary work by Puerto Rican artists at the Whitney captures the impossibility of going back and the difficulty of forging ahead.
Art
Rick Rivet Evokes His Arctic Origin
The artist’s solo exhibition in Santa Fe transports viewers away from New Mexico’s adobe-clad chile-tinged capital city.
Books
A Global History of Women's Photography Includes Over 300 Artists
This book unearths a trove of unseen images from the past two centuries.
Art
A Tension in Paint Befitting Our Times
Maia Ruth Lee wants viewers to make associations as well as recognize the unstable world in which she and many others live.
Art
Burning Down the Language of Enforcement
It is surprisingly rare to come across an activist artwork as succinct and conceptually together as Jordan Corine Cruz’s “Face Each Other, Burn Together.”