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.
Review
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.
Art
A Monumental, Feminist Textile Work, Cobbled Together by Mail
“The Map” is a redress of Christianity’s, and the Irish State’s, distortions of human sexuality and the feminine.
Film
The Joyful Return of a Trans Icon and Electronic Music Pioneer
In the 36 years since recording the seminal Keyboard Fantasies, Beverly Glenn-Copeland has risen from elusive singer-songwriter to global phenomenon.
Books
Crafting a Future Is a Clarion Call to Support Indigenous Arts
Today, India’s handwoven and hand-spun fabrics and master artisans find themselves at existential crossroads, facing threats of obsolescence and urbanization.
Art
Yolanda López, Whose Art Was a Call to Look at Chicana Women
In 1978, Yolanda López debuted a body of work whose imagery would reshape the visual language of Chicanx feminism.
Art
Deborah Jack Explores the Shared Histories of the Body and Landscape
A current retrospective highlights Jack’s insistence on photography’s capacity to express stories held in the environment rather than the archive.
Film
The Passive, Tech-Obsessed Opening of the Winter Olympics
Everything that distinguished director Zhang Yimou’s famed opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympics feels either lacking or missing altogether here.
Art
The Beastliness of Bacon
Bacon was obsessed by animals lifelong. Rawness. Beastliness. Fearsomeness. The way they lived. The way they died. The way they preyed upon each other.
Art
“Creative Seeing” in the Paintings of Elmer Bischoff and Tom Burckhardt
Bischoff and Burckhardt questioned assumptions and conventions regarding abstraction and how we apprehend it. In fact, their questioning is what makes this a fruitful pairing.
Art
Brenda Goodman's Fearless Self-Portraits
While I have seen Goodman's self-portraits numerous times, the unlikely combination of raw pathos and tenderness always stops me in my tracks.