Film
It’s Pete Buttigieg’s Turn to Get a Fawning, Uncritical Documentary
Mayor Pete tries to make the case for the bland presidential candidate whom few voted for as some kind of gamechanger.
Review
Art
Betsy Damon’s Pioneering Ecofeminist Practice
Curated by Monika Fabijanska, Betsy Damon — Passages: Rites and Rituals pulls Damon’s performance practice out from oblivion.
Art
For Shigeko Kubota, Video Lived in the Moment of Its Transmission
The Museum of Modern Art's retrospective exhibition Liquid Reality showcases how Kubota turned video art into sculpture.
Art
Searching for Hayao Miyazaki in the Details of His Films
Does the Academy Museum exhibition successfully plumb the depths of Miyazaki’s psyche?
Art
Leah Guadagnoli's Joyous Kitsch
The works in Love Lies Bleeding were “made in the process of loss, heartache, and recovery,” but nowhere is there a dour note.
Art
Renée Stout is a Do-It-Yourself Conjurer
Her witchery is mischievous, aiming to trick the beholder into a quite fragile enchantment.
Art
Lennart Anderson’s Blindness and Vision
The artist, who had macular degeneration, closely scrutinized his subjects, even as he fictionalized them.
Art
Leon Kossoff’s Art of Darkness and Light
I soon discovered that this gentle, wary, vulnerable man of 75 possessed a will of steel.
Art
The Unexpected Humor of Ellsworth Kelly
Kelly’s collaged postcards provide an awareness of both his sense of humor and his sense of place.
Art
Artists Find Sanctuary at Socrates Sculpture Park
Collectively, the artworks in the 2021 Socrates Annual circumscribe sanctuary as a transitory, idiosyncratic state that provides emotional or physical respite.
Books
A Freewheeling Translation of Dante’s Purgatorio
Mary Jo Bang’s interpretation updates this 14th-century poem for 20th-century readers.
Art
As Galleries Return to Normal, One Group Show Thinks Big
For Open on K, Hemphill in Washington D.C. asked artists to bring their biggest ideas.