Books
“Inside the Seed, There Is a Kingdom”
Julia Guez knows that her poetry can make a "real ask" of readers, with its peculiar vocabulary and indeterminate tendencies, and that gives her hope.
Review
Art
Poeticizing and Politicizing Black and Asian American Abstraction
Columbia University exhibition thwarts the de-politicization of postwar abstract art with a series of provocative questions.
Books
Queer Coming-of-Age Graphic Novel Under the Shadow of Church
Using the pressures of adolescence and indoctrination of the church as a framework, Campbell captures the stress endured by young women and their bodies.
Art
Dreaming With Homer on an Idyllic French Island
Inspired by the journey made by the epic hero Homer’s Odyssey, a show at Villa Carmignac combines myth with contemporary issues.
Film
Documentary on Women's Freedom of Movement, or Lack Thereof
Courtney Stephens's documentary on women's travels from the 1920s to '50s presents not just personal glimpses into daily life a century ago but also documents of colonialism.
Art
Eroticism Beyond the Flesh
Eros Rising at New York’s Institute for Studies on Latin American Art demonstrates that eroticism might be closer to the cosmic than to the terrestrial in its infinite manifestations.
Art
Jordan Casteel Won't Rest on Her Laurels
I was curious to see Casteel's first exhibition since her New Museum show. I was not disappointed.
Art
Aubrey Levinthal Chronicles the Estrangement in Everyday Encounters
Finding her subject matter in ordinary, everyday encounters, Levinthal hints at a subject’s interiority and to the way strangers are separated from each other.
Art
Alyssa Monks Captures the Energy and Anxiety of Being in Paint
With the numerous self-portraits Monks has painted throughout her career she offers her “self” to the viewers while also generating a sense of dissolution.
Books
Some Sisterhood for Any Woman Attempting to Go It Alone
Immy Humes’s The Only Woman is a deeply satisfying array of women scientists, artists, writers, medical students, politicians, and even criminals, all pictured among their fellows.
Film
Parsley Brings a Haitian-Dominican Massacre to Light
Director José María Cabral’s intention to bring a horrific history front and center is much needed for a massacre that remains a footnote in Dominican society.
Art
The Hidden Labor of Exhibitions
Condorelli considers how our modes of seeing and reproducing images and environments might develop, questioning how we see — and how we might see differently.