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?
Review
Art
A Walk in Frédérique Lucien’s Winter Garden
A new exhibition combines the artist’s uncanny bodily sculptures with her two-dimensional botanical works.
Art
The Techno Transcendence of Party/After-Party
Carl Craig’s immersive installation is a testimony to our need to dance, mourn, and rejoice together.
Film
Finally, a Movie That Understands the Lives of Artists
Showing Up, directed by Kelly Reichardt, uniquely tells a story of an artist working far from any monetary goals or God complex.
Art
What Would a World Without Genocide Look Like?
Reparations of the Heart prompts the question: Where would diaspora Armenians and other SWANA communities be if the Armenian Genocide had never happened?
Art
Searching for Warhol’s “Cum”
Welcome to Alchemy, in which artists with famous names mix strange substances together with outcomes of variable interest.
Art
Dreaming in the Afternoon Light
Through her attention to detail and light, Hannah Lee transforms a banal view into something uncanny.
Art
Let Legibility in Art Be Damned
The slippage between legibility and illegibility in Leah Ke Yi Zheng’s work pushes against the assumption that a painting must acknowledge its surface.
Art
Wangechi Mutu’s Corporeal Archaeology
In Mutu's artistic universe, the human body, particularly the female or femme form, is a container for many possibilities.
Art
Can Artists Channel the Force of Water?
Going with the Flow explores the role of water in the Southwest amid the 23-year drought, but neglects the ongoing tug of war due to water mandates and drought.
Art
Painting Joy at the Deepest Point of Tragedy
Rather than focusing on death and suffering, a clichéd reality in Jewish culture, Peter Krasnow chose to paint vibrant, light-filled compositions.
Books
Black Resistance According to Angela Davis and Tschabalala Self
A radical communion of painting and writing, Art on the Frontline reckons with the leftist political potential of Black visual and expressive culture.