Film
A Bleakly Funny Vision of the Future With Clones and Time Travel
The latest installment of indie animator Don Hertzfeldt's World of Tomorrow series expands its bleakly funny vision of the future.
Review
Art
The Exuberant Softness of Feliciano Centurión’s Textiles
Often dismissed during his lifetime for his emphasis on kitsch and craft, it is high time that Centurión gets his due.
Art
Leaning Into the Feeling of Being Lost
José Luis Vargas beckons us to enter his disorienting world, created “with the eyes of a child who has entered a science fiction tale.”
Art
The Visceral Intimacy of Amy Sillman’s Drawings
Messy and tender, like a summer fling, Sillman’s drawings embody both the sense of decay and unyielding hunger for life that marks our current times.
Books
E. McKnight Kauffer, a Commercial Artist With Ideals
For nearly 20 years between the two world wars, E. McKnight Kauffer, an American, was the most celebrated graphic designer in England.
Art
Diedrick Brackens Explores the Warps and Wefts of Black and Queer Histories
In darling divined, Brackens teases out the symbolism, allegory, and parable long associated with global cosmologies of tapestry weaving.
Film
A Tribute to Sylvia Rivera and the Spirit of NYC’s Old Meatpacking District
Hyperallergic has exclusive digital access to This is an Address, Sasha Wortzel’s meditative film on displacement, erasure, and queer communities along the Hudson River piers.
Art
Making Art Against the Backdrop of Incarceration
In a year of perpetual change, Marking Time demonstrates the urgent need for a shift in culture, one where crisis need not be the charge for moving towards a better world.
Film
The Ugly History of Forced Sterilizations in Women's Prisons
The new documentary Belly of the Beast is an investigation into modern-day eugenics in the US.
Art
Claudia Hart Breathes Life into Static Tropes of Modernism
The Ruins at Bitforms Gallery riffs off the work of influential Modernists to create vivid digital simulations
News
A Performance Protest Against the “Petty Thuggery of Fascist Monsters”
From sunrise to sunset, the Afield will present a new multimedia performance which mines the details and redactions of the Mueller report.
Art
Marina Abramović Enhances Her Brand
Abramović’s interests lie more with perpetuating herself as a product than with what she actually expresses through her art.