Art
Alexander Tovborg Seeks the Sacred in the Aesthetic
Kirken works because modern galleries have quasi-religious qualities, with white walls and empty spaces creating an atmosphere for contemplation.
Review
Art
A Piece of Puerto Rico in Chicago
Edra Soto's art brings with it the fabulous look and feel of tropical architectural solutions but not always the pain and difficulty of diasporic life.
Art
How Long Must We Sing This Song?
Dread Scott channels Nina Simone through works that sing of pain and endurance.
Art
Ode to Yvonne Jacquette
Along with Lois Dodd and Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Jacquette successfully pushed back against Minimalism and Conceptual Art.
Art
Kemar Keanu Wynter Cooks Up an Abstract Feast
The Brooklyn-born artist introduces new forms to his ongoing archive of Caribbean heritage and cuisine.
Art
Remembering a Giant of Japanese Painting
Nearly 50 years after Setsuko Mitsuhashi's early death, her legacy lives on and in the hearts of anyone who sees her art.
Film
Workers Are Mad as Hell and Won't Take It Anymore
Director Sean Claffey's Americonned foregrounds real stories and the ripple effects that place working-class people in crisis.
Art
Richard Mayhew's Visionary Mindscapes
Mayhew has not been embraced by the art world because the trajectory he has pursued challenges the categories to which Black artists are consigned.
Art
Christ, Cocks, and All That Jazz
Like a page out of Sigmund Freud’s therapy notebook, all the main protagonists of Agata Słowak’s paintings are the artist herself.
Art
The Power of Community at UCLA's Graduate Open Studios
UCLA's MFA students come across as decidedly extroverted in their interests, looking out into their communities for inspiration, rather than solely within.
Art
Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso Show Is a Victim of Its Hype
It's Pablo-matic is not a great exhibition, but it’s also not the catastrophe that some people have described.
Art
On Being Black in Mexico
How might the average Mexican visitor might perceive Frida Orupabo’s Fear of Fear, in a country where Afro-Mexicans make up roughly 2% of the population?