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.
Review
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.
Art
The Beauty of the Ephemeral World
Whereas the creators of landscape abstractions generally believed their paintings were impervious to time, Lucy Mullican makes artworks that are exposed and susceptible.
Art
For An Icelandic Conceptual Art Pioneer, Home Was His Inspiration
Birgir Andrésson was steeped in Iceland's ways and lore, landscape and history. It was also his complex subject and an energizing force.
Art
A Cryptic Dance Between Understanding and Incomprehension
Rather than dismissing illegibility as a lack of clarity, Steffani Jemison embraces opacity as a strategy that provides other ways of practicing freedom and connection.
Art
Maggi Hambling's Visceral Abstractions Reflect Environmental Destruction
Hambling’s paintings nudge viewers to consider what we will be losing if humankind continues on its current path, and how much we’ve already lost.
Art
Abstract Art in the Southwest Is as Vast as the Region’s Terrain
The exhibition is a compelling, if at times dissonant, examination of the formal and material possibilities at the heart of abstraction.