Film
Soundcloud Rappers Ride Out the Apocalypse in the Desert
The fact-and-fiction-bending documentary Crestone is an offbeat look at friendship and creativity.
Review
Art
Clarence Holbrook Carter, an American Surrealist Who Painted Life, Death, and Rebirth
Carter’s paintings gesture toward unknown realms, whether death or nonhuman consciousness.
Film
A Premature Celebration of the Ascension of Black Artists
Black Art, HBO's documentary on Black visual artists, unwittingly demonstrates what a community gives up when it strives toward the mainstream.
Art
The Penetrating Heat of De Por Vida
At Company Gallery, a meditative exhibition dedicated to queer desire invites viewers to sit with tension.
Art
Angel Otero’s Exquisite Domestic Interiors
In The Fortune of Having Been There, Otero’s paintings seduce us with the whole as well as their individual parts.
Art
In Knausgaard’s Essays on Art, No Thought Goes Unexamined
In the author’s latest book "In the Land of the Cyclops," I want to see what Knausgaard sees, even when I’m overwhelmed by it or disagree.
Film
When a Con Artist Tried to Sell the "Car of the Future"
The HBO true crime miniseries The Lady and the Dale argues that it's just as important to highlight trans outlaws in addition to role models.
Film
Minari Isn’t Really About the American Dream. It’s About US Empire.
In Lee Isaac Chung’s drama, immigration should be considered through the lens of displacement and diaspora, with its characters exhibiting resilience rather than assimilation.
Art
For Sky Hopinka, Wandering Is Both a Mode of Moving and Making
Centers of Somewhere proposes an understanding of Indigeneity that is hybrid, fluctuating, and always in transit.
Art
Samara Golden’s Memento Mori Give Shape to Grief
When experienced as a portrait of the artist’s psyche alone, Upstairs at Steve’s is a piercing representation of individual grief.
Art
At Rome’s Quadriennale, Out With the Old and In With Historical Interventions
Fuori proposes a reinterpretation of Italian visual arts from the 1960s to the present day, affording greater prominence to women and young artists.
Film
El Planeta, Amalia Ulman’s Transportive “Comedy About Eviction”
Ulman’s feature debut chronicles a mother-daughter pair in post-recession Spain with a restrained style and hints of amusing deception.