Art
Memories Remade With Charcoal and Ash
Artist Dan Jian makes the point that landscapes and memory are one and the same.
Review
Art
Highlights From Columbia University's MFA Thesis Exhibition
Every corner and crevice of Columbia University's MFA Thesis show feels lived in, reflecting not just artists’ experience quarantining with their work, but also that of re-entering society.
Art
A Desert Biennial, Somewhere Between Settlers and Searchers
Sprawling across the Joshua Tree region, nine site-specific works consider the ways in which people have relocated to the desert, destroying what came before them, and cultivating new life.
Film
The Tsugua Diaries Is More Than an Arthouse Summer Hangout Movie
The plot of Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes’s film moves backward in time, continually recontextualizing what at first looks like a simple situation.
Film
How Hollywood Has Helped Colonize Hawaiʻi
Anthony Banua-Simon’s documentary Cane Fire contrasts decades of Hollywood images of his home with its current reality.
Art
Yarn Against the Patriarchy
Michelle Segre’s art is truer to the actual world we live in than to the ideal one proposed and refined by the art world and its institutions.
Art
Libby Black Processes the World Around Her By Recreating It
In the artist’s new exhibition, Black moves away from her signature representation of commercial goods to celebrating the labors behind everyday life.
Art
When a Contemporary Art Gallery Exhibits a Renaissance Artist
Ikon Gallery's retrospective asserts that Carlo Crivelli’s self-reflexiveness and questioning the nature of the image made him anticipate the “contemporary.”
Art
Weaving an Altar to Guatemala's Pre-Hispanic Glory
Sandra Monterroso confronts the knots that tie together the inequalities, violence, discrimination, racism, and patriarchy in Guatemala.
Art
NYC Exhibition Invites Viewers to Go for a Nap
For all its quirks, Sprout Hinge Nap Wobble’s immersive elements never feel gimmicky.
Art
Oscar Muñoz Visualizes the Invisible
The Colombian artist’s first US retrospective is a meditation on memory and seeing.
Art
What’s Left After Exile?
“As horrifying as the details of my family story are, that is literally every émigré story. Your only choice is to leave everything behind,” says artist Jenny Yurshansky.