Art
Peter Shear Lets Paint Be
The position Shear has been defining in his work is one that accepts, contemplates, and reimagines the possibilities of abstract painting.
Review
Art
The Artist Who Sailed With Saints
Born with a speech impediment that made him unintelligible to many people, Lemko artist Nikifor turned to drawing as a means of communication.
Film
The Anarchic Spirit of Nam June Paik
Amanda Kim’s documentary shows how Paik anticipated the dizzying ways in which electronic and digital culture would transform human discourse.
Art
Minerva Cuevas Strikes the Gods of Environmental Destruction
In taking aim at contemporary corporations, especially oil companies, Cuevas draws a connection between colonization, trade, and the devastation of the natural world.
Art
Josephine Halvorson Paints to Remember
She invites the viewer to contemplate all the ways we mark and live in time, and how much of what we record and keep we will eventually dispose of.
Art
An Artist's Gift of Care
Artist Soo Kim's latest series is about the act of arranging, about the impulse to create something with our hands for ourselves and for others.
Art
Witches Take Over Westchester
Bowen’s multimedia art is an alchemical mix of the sensuous and arcane, and it is more than a little witchy.
Film
MTV’s The Exhibit Is Finally Spicing Up
In the penultimate episode, the show's editors managed to ignite the spark of mindless reality TV.
Film
New Directors/New Films Festival Takes an Experimental Turn
A host of documentaries exemplify ND/NF's unconventional programming philosophy.
Art
An Artist's Hopeful Vision of the Ocean
Indonesian artist Mulyana crafts a tactile, mystical world in which fish, whales, and coral reefs coexist with sea monsters.
Art
An Introduction to “Afrogallonism”
Serge Attukwei Clottey explores Ghanaian culture and identity through discarded jerrycans and other found materials.
Film
They Managed to Mess Up an Art Heist Movie
There must be a lesson in Vasilis Katsoupis’s film Inside about the vacuousness of the art market or the claustrophobia of exhibition spaces — I just don’t care.