Film
Mad God Is a Descent Into Hell, in the Best Way Possible
Made over the course of 30 years by special effects legend Phil Tippett, this stop-motion animated epic is a feast of creatively horrifying imagery.
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Art
A Thrilling Discovery of the Only Known Work by Female Renaissance Artist Caterina Angela Pierozzi
Depicting the busts of Gabriel and the Virgin, “The Annunciation” (1677) may be the ultimate lost artwork, or "sleeper."
Art
Seeing Robert Rauschenberg for the First Time, All Over Again
Rauschenberg gave artists an enormous sense of freedom and permission to create anything they could dream of, so long as they were earnest in their ideas and execution.
Art
Hanne Darboven’s Attempt to Unbind Narrative From Time
Just as LeWitt used minimalism to distill geometric forms, Darboven used it to expose the raw structure of time.
Books
Laurie Parsons’s Disappearing Act
An artist book introduced by curator Bob Nickas seeks to introduce a new generation to the artist, who abandoned her art career 30 years ago to practice social work.
Art
Lorraine O’Grady Still Won’t Play It Safe
Much like her writing, O’Grady’s photomontages pressure binaries until something other, something “both/and” emerges.
Art
Scenes From a Refugee Childhood
As a coming-of-age memoir during World War II, Zoe Beloff’s Reminiscences of a Refugee Childhood is a document of a generation rapidly fading from living memory.
Film
A Frightening Doc About the NYC Subway
End of the Line captures five years of failed efforts to fix the city’s disastrously bad train infrastructure.
Art
Making Art in the Shadow of Grief
Erica Green’s textile exhibition Once They Were Red manifests an act of repair through humble materials, but the experience is one of surviving more than mending.
Film
David Cronenberg Creates a World Where “Surgery is the New Sex”
Starring Léa Seydoux, Viggo Mortensen, and Kristen Stewart, Crimes of the Future is funny, serious, and sexy all at once.
Film
A Timely Documentary Revisits the Time When Abortion Was Illegal
The Janes interviews former members of Chicago’s underground network that helped people secure abortions.
Art
The Women Artists Who Found Inspiration in Friendship
Nancy Buchanan, Marcia Hafif, and Barbara T. Smith shared studio and exhibition spaces, babysat each other’s children, and took part in one another’s avant-garde work.