Art
Francesca Fuchs Tenderly Renders the Small and Private
Fuchs’s quiet paintings and ceramics pay tribute to the small, private objects that accompany us through life and ultimately anchor us in time.
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Film
Jeen-Yuhs Knows That Kanye West Isn’t a Riddle That Can be Solved
The gargantuan three-part documentary follows the famous, controversial rapper for 20 years, capturing his brilliance and contradictions.
Books
Searching for a More Inclusive History of Ornament
While the ancient art form of ornament often contains deep meaning, European modernist theory attempted to erase ornament from the design world.
Art
Connection, Contemplation, and Contested Histories in Contemporary Native American and Indigenous Art
Snake whisky still life and other stories tackles the stereotyping, misrepresentation, and appropriation of Indigenous cultures.
Art
Byron Kim Plumbs the Depths of Nature and the Imagination
Despite all we know about the environment and what we are doing to it, Kim arrives at another, less palatable realization: As much as we call the Earth our home, we are strangers here.
Art
The Figural Ghosts of Oliver Lee Jackson's Expressive Abstraction
Jackson's two-dimensional surfaces lead us into a maze of shapes and visual gestures, yet tease us into recognizing the figures hidden within.
Books
Caio Fernando Abreu's Short Stories Charm with Questions of Life and Love
Moldy Strawberries is as hilarious as it is heartbreaking, vaulting existential questions across the page while poking fun at the urge to ask them in the first place.
Art
Alec Soth Mines the Poetic Possibility of Photographs
Soth's art is motivated less by the need for cohesion than by attentiveness to a moment that seems full of poetic possibility.
Art
Memories of a Refugee Camp Inspire a Graphic Designer
Amir Berbić created artworks that draw on his childhood in a Danish refugee camp, memories that counter the hostile rhetoric surrounding refugees.
Film
Amidst Renovations, the Chelsea Hotel Dreams of Its Old Self
The documentary Dreaming Walls contrasts the New York icon’s glory days with the current residents’ struggle to preserve the building.
Art
Byron Kim Achieves Equilibrium
Perhaps these paintings are what it feels like for the artist to be in a state of not being harried, anxious or in deep existentialist dread.
Art
Famakan Magassa's Virtuous Vice
The Malian painter’s first solo exhibition in New York muses on the desires and compulsions that guide us toward enlightenment — and occasionally get us into trouble.