Art
Challenging the Perception that Photographs Present an Objective Vision
Imagining the photographic print as a singular art object.
Review
Art
The Magnificent Abstractions of Alma Thomas
Thomas was a major artist who in her lifetime was unjustly denied the acclaim she merited. This show is a brave beginning.
Art
The Mind-Bending Portraits of Chie Fueki
For years, Fueki has been quietly creating a singular body of mind-bending work that has never fit into the New York art world.
Film
Pedro Almodóvar Presents a Beguiling Thriller About Motherhood
Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit play two new mothers from very different backgrounds in the Spanish director’s latest study in female interiority.
Art
The Punk Marie Antoinette of the 1970s New York Art Scene
In Colette Lumière’s world, the theatricality of Versailles meets the punk ethos of the Sex Pistols.
Art
Pastels Are Damned Beautiful
An exhibition spanning the 16th century to the present displays pastels in all their lush, radiating color.
Film
Andres Serrano's Sensationalistic Flop About January 6
Insurrection is a blunt effort by an artist to find a sensational edge to a national tragedy.
Film
An Art Film Romance Takes a Rare Transcendentalist View
Using magical realism and never taking the expected approach, Georgian director Alexandre Koberidze asks viewers to take more notice of the world around them.
Art
The Calligraphic Character of Holbein’s Portraits
An exhibition at the Getty unleashes the dynamic character of Holbein’s portraits in ways I’ve never seen before.
Art
A Barbara Kruger Retrospective Mixes Capitalism and its Critique
Kruger never seemed to mind that the very world she critiqued co-opted her style and spit it back into advertising.
Art
Identity and Transformation in the Art of Raúl de Nieves
De Nieves suggests that we are not just one thing or another, but an amalgamation, transforming, always in a state of becoming.
Art
The Transcendent Power of Black in Norman Lewis's Abstractions
For Lewis, a first-generation Abstract Expressionist, working with black seemed to open up his art.