Art
Sean Scully's Abstract Paintings Have Stories to Tell
Minimalism sought to empty out narrative pictorial content. Scully's goal has been to put it back.
Review
Art
Raphael Between Heaven and Earth
The Renaissance master was boundlessly ambitious and intimidatingly energetic, charming, good-looking, diplomatic, and utterly opportunistic.
Art
White Boys and Divine Animals Bound Cleverly Together
Zadie Xa’s quilted textiles and Hernan Bas’s paintings of adolescent men enjoy a surprising but generative dialogue at San Francisco's Jessica Silverman gallery.
Film
A Girl Gets Out From Under Her Father’s Thumb in Murina
Croatian filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s debut feature accurately captures a certain kind of Balkan machismo.
Art
The Pioneering Feminists of French Art
Pioneers at Paris’s Musée du Luxembourg places a particular emphasis on women artists who challenged and subverted conventional norms of gender presentation, sexuality, motherhood, and race.
Art
Tanoa Sasraku’s Enigmatic "Earth Photos"
In finding new ways to read and map landscapes, Tanoa Sasraku disrupts our expectations of the rural and opens up latent memories, mythologies, and energies.
Art
Transforming Society Through Play
Assembly Required suggests it is high time to strap on a colorful mask and play with someone you don’t know — or don’t know well enough.
Art
Using Her Mouth and Feet, Lorenza Böttner Created an Immense Body of Work
A childhood accident took her arms away but the transgender artist survived to create paintings, photography, and performances focused on depicting the body.
Film
Juliette Binoche Is Torn Between Two Lovers in Claire Denis’s Both Sides of the Blade
Fans of director Claire Denis should check the film out, but as an agnostic, I find it one of her few truly awful pictures.
Art
Woomin Kim Quilts the Nomadic Side of Global Capitalism
Her works, depicting objects from Korean markets, invite viewers to marvel at what can be achieved with fabric.
Art
Anja Salonen’s Surrealist Paintings of Existential Unease
Salonen’s paintings point to a location in which reality is slippery, ill-defined — a dream or place of play.
Art
Reuben Kadish's Enduring Portraits of Human Anguish
Kadish’s fossil-like heads, forms, and figures remind us that every civilization, including our own, eventually collapses.