Art
Can Commodities Really Critique Commodity Culture?
Given a platform to say something — about first-world capitalism, its attendant environmental destruction, or the definition of the self through objects — why not use it?
Review
Film
The Story of a Man’s Friendship With a Cloud
Through its magical realism, The Cloud & the Man posits the power of love in adding a tinge of color to an overlooked, black-and-white life.
Art
Juan Sánchez's Nuyorican State of Mind
From painting to photography, the artist’s sophisticated hybrid aesthetic echoes the very condition of being Nuyorican.
Art
The V&A Wanted to Subvert Toxic Masculinity but Ended Up Reinforcing It
The exhibition Fashioning Masculinities lets men have their cake and eat it too.
Art
Dean Fleming Paints the Fourth Dimension
Fleming's geometric paintings are not the Minimalism of Greenberg and Judd, with their insistence on flatness and the elimination of space in painting.
Art
Greek Mythology as an Allegory for Gay Dating
Paul Anagnostopoulos's painted terra cottas are rife with rich allegory to unpack — whether you’re LGBTQ+ or not.
Art
Georgia O’Keeffe, Reframed
A new exhibition at the Denver Art Museum renders the artist’s persona through newly identified photographs.
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.
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.