Art
Zac Skinner's Survivalist Sculptures
Skinner imagines the jury-rigged technology that would enable survival in the wake of apocalyptic climate disaster.
Review
Books
Yayoi Kusama’s Self-Portrait as a Young Provocateur
Kusama: The Graphic Novel is an ode to the power of art, which, on multiple occasions, saved her.
Books
Poems About the Business of Being a Poet
Kent Johnson skewers the silliness of the swarming poetry world.
Music
The Heavenly Queens of R&B
Sharp, smooth, smoky new albums from Toni Braxton, Chloe x Halle, Ariana Grande, and K. Michelle.
Art
The Absurdist Echoes of Tudor Tyranny
Cate Giordano’s immersive tableaux hurl the viewer headfirst into a historical clusterfuck that eerily recalls the present day.
Film
Bringing Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me to Life
HBO has turned the stage adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates's acclaimed book into a multifaceted television special.
Film
Behind the Scenes at a Groundbreaking Clinic for Transgender People
Born to Be looks at the doctors and patients at Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery.
Film
A Lively Reinterpretation of Charles Dickens
The new adaptation The Personal History of David Copperfield brings the classic novel to life with energetic editing and colorblind casting.
Books
Rereading Georgia O’Keeffe’s Biography in a New Light
Roxana Robinson’s biography of the artist features letters from a young O’Keeffe to a lover, which offer some unexpected art historical insights.
Art
Lucia Nogueira’s Sensuous, Smoky Visions of Hell
Featuring a stunning series of watercolors based on Dante’s Inferno, Nogueira’s latest exhibition sheds new light on her gift for haunting evocations of the female body.
Film
Telling the Stories of the Women Behind Chicago’s BLM Movement
The documentary Unapologetic explores the kind of activism the media tends to ignore.
Film
The Experimental Vanguard of Documentary Film
Film at Lincoln Center is presenting the seventh edition of Art of the Real, featuring Sky Hopinka, Jessica Sarah Rinland, and more.