Art
How John Mitchell Shakes Up Portraiture
Mitchell is conscious of the many profound changes occurring in our society, and the urgent need to challenge old tropes.
Review
Art
A Difficult but Necessary Exhibition About Roadkill
Jeanne Dunning's works attest to widespread human disregard for animal life, and their finished form insists on both their deadness and how it happened.
Books
The Lasting Appeal of Wittgenstein's “Picture Theory”
If Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus radically redefines the scope of philosophy, it has proved irresistibly suggestive to literary theorists, poets, and artists.
Art
Ken Lum Holds Up a Mirror to the World
With their sophisticated interplay between image, text, materials, color and driving ideas, Lum’s works often have a pronounced emotional impact.
Art
Subverting Our Need for Instant Gratification
A survey exhibition at the New Mexico Museum of Art looks at artists who took a revolutionary and subversive approach to the photographic image.
Art
An Evocative Portrait of Athens Through Time and Family
In the Same Space is a moving dialogue between artist Eirini Vourloumis and her grandfather, painter Andreas Vourloumis, and a flickering portrait of the Greek capital.
Film
Love May Be Timeless, But Not Painless
Rahat Mahajan's debut feature The Cloud Messenger finds resonance in suffering as a means to liberation.
Art
Art for the Sun Worshippers in All of Us
Sun Seekers, by sisters Amy and Jennifer Khoshbin, seems to say: we’ve been cooped up for too long; it’s time to get some fresh air.
Art
Artists Reimagine Nike’s Cortez Running Shoe
At LaPau Gallery, nine West Coast Latinx artists show the power of personal and cultural agency.
Art
Making Art as a Form of Resistance
The Discomfort of Evening demonstrates that in the face of unprecedented local and global turmoil young Polish artists see hope and opportunities for art.
Art
Art That Animates the Body in Space
Real Corporeal makes visitors aware of their own embodiment and addresses how bodies are in constant dialogue with the politics of their environments.
Art
Jim Weidle and Our Beautiful Despair
In his paintings of ground cover and gravel, Weidle touches on the despair that has replaced optimism in the United States, the sense that the future is bleak.