Books
Justine Kurland's Female Utopia
In Girl Pictures, the photographer presents a seductive fantasy of a world in which being a young woman is not cause for fear but a source of boundless freedom.
Review
Art
Jan Harrison's Dream Animals
To respond to an animal in Harrison’s imagined world is to grasp how closely its existence is linked with that of all the others.
Art
Cecily Brown Crashes the House of Churchill
What will she make of the fabled greatness of the English past?
Art
Rivane Neuenschwander's Sensuous Reflections of a Harrowing World
Fear — so pervasive these days — has long been an important theme for Neuenschwander.
Art
An Abstract Painter Defines a Space of His Own
In his clashing compositions and use of artificial colors and materials Odita generates something very different from artists associated with geometric abstraction and Minimalism.
Film
A Grand Adventure on Nature's Littlest Stage
The Paul Rudd-narrated documentary series Tiny World takes an up-close look at Earth's most diminutive denizens.
Film
A Daunting Survey of the Global Housing Crisis
The documentary Push follows a UN official as she investigates the financialization of housing.
Film
Fargo’s TV Adaptation Is a Folksy, Homespun Tale of Murder and Mayhem
The series has returned for a fourth season of pitch-black humor and quirky characters.
News
Patrisse Cullors Revisits a Malcolm X Speech to Help Get Out the Vote
Malcolm Revisited screens for free on October 2 and 3.
Film
The Public and Private Lives of BTS Blur on Tour
Break the Silence, the new concert film about the incredibly popular K-pop band, demonstrates the vulnerability that makes them so beloved by fans.
Art
A Timely Look at the Escape From Paris After Nazi Invasion
The intriguing exhibition Parisian Exodus demonstrates the importance of documenting such moments of upheaval with nuance.
Art
Peter Williams’s Afrofuturist World and Its Cyclones of Color
It is past time that Williams receives the institutional attention he deserves.