Books
Amusing Stories About the Muses of Art
Ruth Millington tells the story of the women (and nine men) who have been portrayed in various paintings considered “masterpieces.”
Review
Art
The Many Faces of Ukrainian Photography Today
In Ukrainian Photography Today the now and then come into intimate contact to reveal a story about one’s roots and uprootedness.
Art
Reclining Men Reading Radical Books
Artist Pachi Muruchu merges his radical beliefs and resistance to colonialism with a complex sense of color and the moods it can conjure and inflect.
Art
Sally Gabori's Cartography of Aboriginal Displacement
During her last decade of life Gabori created abstract, large-scale paintings that map her emotional memory of her ancestral home.
Art
Why Are You Drawing Faces Like That?
With deep-set eyes and sealed lips, an ovular, narrow face is pervasive in James Gilbert’s work.
Film
Claire Denis's New Film Is Stronger on Steam Than Story
Just as sex with a revolutionary does not make one revolutionary, a penchant for setting films in developing countries does not make Denis a resident expert.
Art
A Miniature View of Modernism's Masters
Though smaller in size than the artists’ usual works, the works in Modernism in Miniature gain their heft from their big-name creators.
Art
Barbara Sullivan's Contemporary Art of Fresco Painting
Sullivan's frescos are original and surprising but also wry and even feisty; she both embraces and enhances the clunkiness of the medium, animating her subjects.
Art
Dead People Prefer Photography, Apparently
Shannon Taggart’s book SÈANCE pictures the supernatural occurrences in the lives of Spiritualists, seekers, mediums, and other occult practitioners.
Art
Phoebe Adams Memorializes the Ephemeral
Adams's imaginative recreation of our everyday surroundings in her paintings is a reminder of how fleeting and transmutable the material world can be.
Art
Wangechi Mutu Is Urgently Optimistic About the Future
Mutu’s imposing sculptural characters magnify her decades-long collage practice as sites of cultural, psychological, and sociopolitical transformation.
Film
Pierre Clémenti, Rebel With a Cause
The French director made his films with his own earnings as an actor, not for monetary gain or widespread recognition but as a form of self-realization.