Film
The Animated Biopic of Charlotte Salomon Is a Missed Opportunity
Charlotte fails to truly depict the famed artist's work and pain. It may just be that no other artist can tell Salomon's story better than she already did.
Review
Art
Opening Up the Thingness of Painting
Dana Lok explores a range of perceptual conundrums in an impressive debut exhibition.
Art
Thornton Willis's Aversion to Perfection
The openness of Willis's art suggests that he does not believe that painting needs to attain visual perfection; painting is a process that does not search for closure.
Film
Over 40 Years Later, The Wobblies Is as Relevant as Ever
The 1979 documentary, recently restored and now returning to theaters, is a vital record of the early years of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Art
Art’s Conventional Signifiers Are No Longer Useful
Pratt’s MFA Thesis Exhibition features immersive presentations that transcend the parameters of traditional painting.
Books
In Nature, a Poet Finds a Visionary Language
The poems of Cody-Rose Clevidence are shot through with a sense of nature’s vitality and with the possibility that the numinous, even the divine, may inhere in that nature.
Film
The Breezy Bisexuality of Anaïs in Love
Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s directorial debut offers a twist of zest to the tired tale of a vivacious young woman pursuing romance with an older man.
Art
Abstraction From a Different Origin
Eamon Ore-Giron invites the viewer to consider culture as a collective, living concept that evolves through destabilizing identity.
Film
How Do We Know What’s Real in the Era of the Deepfake?
The Museum of the Moving Image show Deepfake: Unstable Evidence on Screen tries to help visitors equip themselves to discern real images from fake ones.
Art
Cindy Ji Hye Kim Mines the Dark Recesses of Memory
In Kim's art, peculiar characters may be skulking out of sight, shrouded in shadow, forever forgotten in bygone dreams, or inscrutable in the recesses of her memory.
Art
The Experimental Laboratory of Artist-Inventor Carl Cheng
Cheng is equal parts inventor and artist, breaking both technological and cultural ground as a Chinese-American artist.
Art
Fiona Connor’s Portals Into Closed-Down Clubs
Connor creates a simulacrum of closed-down businesses she would frequent or come across in Los Angeles, New York City, and New Zealand.