Art
Paintings Embedded With Echoes of War
Jane Irish’s work offers an archive of painterly traditions juxtaposed with horrific acts of violence driven by the moneyed class.
Review
Books
A Conceptual Compendium of Conceptual Art
Flipping through Seth Siegelaub’s collection of writings and interviews is a bit like diving into an archive without a finding aid, as exhilarating as it is overwhelming.
Books
Poetry as the “Art of Thinking It Through”
The linguistic imagination of William Fuller’s new collection, Daybreak, takes the form of sustained odysseys between philosophical abstraction and the everyday concrete.
Art
Mira Dayal Maps a Gallery Floor
The graphite floor map can be understood as a post-apocalyptic landscape, a commentary on artistic labor, or a parable about COVID-era confinement.
Film
A Documentary Lets David Wojnarowicz Speak Again
Wojnarowicz features selections from hundreds of hours of personal recordings the artist left behind after his 1992 death.
Film
Zack Snyder’s Justice League, an Invaluable Historical Document of the Age of the Fan
The result of a years-long fan campaign, the massive reedit of 2017's much-maligned Justice League holds many lessons about contemporary film culture, production, and editing.
Film
A Very Rich Take on the Largest Art Fraud in US History
When you’re surrounded by courtiers who serve your every need, are you really surprised when a few of them end up being jesters and sycophants?
Art
Haig Aivazian’s Poignant Supercuts Pay Tribute to Beiruti Resistance
Aivazian masterfully manipulates found video footage and sound, producing harrowing, evocative juxtapositions.
Art
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme Create a Poetic, Web-based Space for Mourning
Postscript exudes a rare ease of accessibility, permitting viewers to linger and acknowledge the nuances of grief.
Art
In De Lo Mío, Artists Push and Pull at the Seams of Dominican Collective Memory
Themes of tourism, migration, and national identity inform the exhibition’s formidable and, at times, paradoxical quest to a shared homeland.
Art
Hugh Steers Melds Queerness and the Devotional
Working amid the AIDS crisis, Hugh Steers’s paintings exude a graceful, figurative style that went under-recognized during his brief lifetime.
Books
Lessons on Propaganda: Visualizing Empire Counters the Colonial Archive
The Getty volume is replete with vital lessons on studying and historicizing imperial ephemera.