Book Review
The Friendship That Transformed Frida Kahlo
The cover of a new book draws you in for Kahlo, but you will stay for Mary Reynolds, the innovative bookbinder and partner of Marcel Duchamp.
Review
Art Review
Chicago Nonprofit Celebrates a Decade of Serving Unhoused Artists
Red Line Service, which provides art opportunities for currently or formerly unhoused people, celebrates its anniversary with an exhibition.
Art Review
The Queens Phone Repair Shop Meets the Museum
Umber Majeed’s work cuts deep for those who saw their diasporic culture meld queasily with early internet culture.
Art Review
The Communal Roots of Ben Shahn's Social Realism
The 20th-century artist belonged to a "prophetic community" that resisted oppression.
Art Review
Magali Lara Stitches Together the Personal and Political
A survey of work by the pioneering Mexican feminist artist reimagine landscapes and home interiors as sites of political and emotional tension.
Art Review
Saya Woolfalk Toys With Future Worlds
The hybridized energy of Woolfalk's art is infectious; it permeates everything we see, while prodding us to question what we imagine the future might look like.
Art Review
The First Homosexuals Is a Defiant Celebration of LGBTQ+ Life
The exhibition is diffuse with a sense of urgency to document this history against aggravated societal and governmental threats of erasure.
Film Review
An Absurd Take on Masahisa Fukase’s Darkness
The ridiculous magical-realist flourish of an anthropomorphic raven cheapens his story and flattens the film’s engagement with his art.
Art Review
Ruth Asawa Showed Us the Way to an Artistic Life
Asawa gracefully wove together many sides — an innovative and singular artist, a tireless advocate for arts education, a community builder, and a loving wife and mother.
Film Review
The Renaissance, but Make It Game of Thrones
A new documentary emphasizes the political intrigues of Da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo.
Film Review
Rashaad Newsome’s Futurist Manifesto of Black Joy
His film Assembly is more than just documentation of a performance. It’s a kind of communion.
Art Review
Bas Jan Ader Made Fate Into an Art
So much of what Ader explored was about surrendering to destiny, but also about heeding internal calls — to adventure, open horizons, and the sublime.