Art
The Afterlives of Art Scraps
Artists Selina Trepp, Leslie Baum, and Diane Christiansen repurpose their own and others’ creations into new artworks.
Review
Film
A Body Horror Tale With an Avian Twist
Hanna Bergholm’s stunningly original debut film Hatching embraces the experience of female adolescence as the monster that it is, and then gives that monster literal wings.
Film
Panda! Go Panda! Classics Make a Delightful Comeback
You don't have to be an anime-head to appreciate these early-career shorts by the founders of Studio Ghibli.
Film
Pleasure Dispels Male Fantasies of Porn
Ninja Thyberg’s film replicates a common plot structure for classic porn as it follows a young performer entering the business, but its focus is on the labor involved.
Art
Photography’s Impossible Attempt at Freezing Time
A photo’s presence suggests the fear of its absence, the artist’s fear of time slipping away.
Art
Keisha Prioleau-Martin's Body Euphoria
The artist represents what she describes as the “inner glowing life of individuals,” uplifting self-love despite political and economic strife.
Art
The Monstrous Beauty of Louise Bourgeois's Late Textiles
The Woven Child at London’s Hayward Gallery is a moving examination of Bourgeois's fabric sculptures, drawing out themes of motherhood, gender, identity, and trauma.
Film
A Bruce Mau Documentary Can’t Explain What the Man Does
MAU is too charmed by its subject to nail down what he has achieved, or why people should even care about him in the first place.
Art
Multiple Realities of Abstract Art at the Southeast Queens Biennial
A poetic sense of materials united the artists of the 2022 Southeast Queens Biennial in New York.
Art
Soft Scenes of a Rough Life of Labor
Daisuke Fukunaga depicts Japanese workers as tired but happy. Are they, really?
Art
Welcome to Your Place in the Multiverse
Jean Lowe’s work parodies our most banal behaviors by inviting us to consume images of our own consumption.
Performance
The Terrors of Whiteness in Wu Tsang's Moby Dick
The experimental film, accompanied by live music, pictures the ecocide that a violently extractive ideology of whiteness produces.