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.
Review
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.
Film
On Camouflage and Control in The Velvet Queen
Rather than celebrate intrepid man capturing, and controlling, the magic of “nature,” the film focuses more on how nature watches us.
Books
Searching for (Artificially) Intelligent Life
Eugene Lim’s novel explores mortality by way of Buddhism, cybernetics, and Asian identity.
Art
The Restless Spirit of Lubaina Himid
Lubaina Himid's Tate exhibition is a conversation, a rhetorical question, an experiment. Like opera, from which it draws its inspiration, it aims to be “a total work of art.”
Art
Aisha Khalid Examines Women's Roles and Spirituality Through Textiles and Geometry
In her current retrospective viewers can see the beginning of an oeuvre that scrutinizes personal, social, and cultural issues such as prescribed societal norms associated with the female gender.
Art
The Getty, Google Arts, & Banana Craze Create Three Online Shows Worth a Visit
What unites all these projects is a clear sense that they exist in a world unto itself: the digitized space.
Art
Jonny Negron’s Darker Portraits of Party Life
Jonny Negron captures the disappointment and delights of Dionysian narcissism.
Art
A Philosopher-Painter for Troubled Times
Judith Bernstein is a great artist whose boldly original paintings forcefully respond to the troubled life of our present culture.
Books
Darrel Ellis's Powerful Investigations of Identity Through Family Photographs
Unlike many of his contemporaries, who centered their own lives and loves in relation to contemporary queer culture and the AIDS epidemic, Ellis looked backward.
Art
Politics and Joy Come Together in an Artist's Tribute to Her Murdered Father
Elena Brokaw’s work serves as a reminder of the tangible remains of American foreign interference and state-sanctioned violence in Guatemala — the pieces left over, decades after the collective American conscience has moved on.
Art
How Dürer's Travels Reveal His Voracious Appetite for Art
Albrecht Dürer always wanted to move on, to be somewhere else.