Art
The Physical Labor of Writing
Many writers will tell you that writing is a physical activity. Renee Gladman’s drawings convey that idea in a more visceral, less cerebral way.
Review
Art
Raging Against the Dying of the Light
Jake Berthot’s paintings are haunted by an awareness of mortality and, beyond that, a feeling that no light awaits in the darkness.
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The “Society Photographer” of NYC’s Downtown Underground
Jimmy DeSana’s work remains transgressive, even by today’s standards.
Books
Guantánamo’s Artists Fight for Beauty
Remaking the Exceptional allows us to feel the furious joy that emanates from those who have saved their own lives with activism and art.
Film
A Tale of Two Indigenous Fishermen in Mumbai
Against the Tide examines Mumbai’s Koli community’s drift between tradition and progress.
Art
How Can We Mend the Fashion World?
Beautiful Repair: Mending in Art and Fashion at Copenhagen Contemporary explores the aesthetics of mending through the lens of art and fashion.
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Decolonizing Rococo
Yvette Mayorga demonstrates the efficiency of Rococo in articulating class distortions of US Latinx peoples.
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Pedro Reyes Disarms in Santa Fe
By transforming guns into art and everyday objects, the artist hopes to transform culture itself.
Art
My Travels in the Land of Winkfield
Trevor Winkfield’s modestly scaled acrylic paintings abound in puzzling, private symbols.
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Mourning and Perseverance Stitched Into South African Tapestries
Members of the Keiskamma Art Project experiment with needlework to narrate pertinent histories, moments of communal grief and of vitality.
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Keep an Eye Out for These Emerging Chicago Artists
Ground Floor at the Hyde Park Art Center is a sensitively curated selection of works by exceptionally promising young artists.
Film
Progress Meets Paranoia in Home Invasion
Director Graeme Arnfield describes the notion of “a horror film waiting on your doorstep,” but his film seems to suggest it’s already in the house.