Los Angeles
Jennifer Packer Portrays Friends Through the Haze of Memory
Packer processes the horror of 2020 into elegiac mood studies that wrestle with exhaustion, fear, and longing.
Review
Books
Gleefully Voyeuristic, Sara Cwynar Invites Us to Spy on the Workings of Consumerism
Amidst the frenzy of accelerated consumption and existential doom, Glass Life provides a lucid meditation on how and why we consume.
Music
When Live Music Brings the Beat Back Into Your Body
A concert at the Cloisters shed the Met’s stuffiness, broadening what performance can be.
Film
After Decades of Repression, Bill Gunn’s Work Finally Breaks Free
Because he refused to play to white hegemony, Gunn’s films were often poorly understood.
Art
Huguette Caland’s Vivacious Takes on the Female Form
Robust, voluptuous, and sexually frank, the works in Tête-à-Tête showcase Caland’s outré sense of humor and vivacity.
Books
The Nuances of Loneliness
In a new graphic nonfiction book, Kristen Radtke interrogates this pervasive but often shame-filled aspect of the human condition.
Art
A Printmaker Memorializes New York City’s Architecture
“Manhattan is my easel,” said Austin Thomas.
Art
With Mother Tongue, Camille Henrot Calls for Change
Henrot demonstrates the need to look at the beginning of our very existence to address social and gender inequalities.
Art
A Poet-Artist Looks to the Stars
Monica Ong is a 21st-century visual poet who extends the reader’s sense of what is possible.
Art
Trevon Latin Finds Joy in Melancholy
Latin’s colorful artworks touch on aspects of queer and Black experience, not in broad strokes, but in exceedingly specific ones.
Art
Imagining Our Climate Future
Speculations about climate change by an array of artists feel eerily probable, if not already real.
Books
Humankind’s History of Betraying Animals
Thalia Field's poems collage scientific, historical, and philosophical sources to explore speciesism.