Art
Stained Glass That Demands Slow Looking
Featuring jarring geometrics, menageries of odd little creatures, and maximalist aesthetics, Judith Schaechter’s light boxes are nearly impossible to look away from.
Review
Art
Make the Getty’s Collection Your Own in Animal Crossing
The Getty's art generator is the latest tool to help players of the popular social simulation game create their own galleries and installations.
Books
An Illustrator’s Lyrical Meditation on Her Father’s Decline
A visual poem about her father’s battle with dementia, Ephameron’s Us Two Together resonates in multiple senses.
Film
Sundance Institute Joins Relief Efforts to Help Film Workers Affected by COVID-19
Sundance is the first field partner of Artist Relief, an initiative to aid arts workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Art
In Nate Lewis’s Hands, Portraits Become Palpable Landscapes
Here are Black bodies in motion which Lewis freezes in time to remake into patterns of overlapping leaves or the stars of shrunken constellations.
Film
Looking at Ourselves Through Social Distance Cinema
A one-location movie tills fertile thematic ground for auteurs, celebrities, and ordinary people who explore facets of being alone through film and video — the subtle distinctions between solitude, loneliness, isolation, confinement, paranoia, and sanctuary.
Music
Poppy Captures the Chaos of Pop
By committing to chaos in itself, Poppy captures a spirit of play, a sense that anything is possible.
Art
Isaac Julien’s Political Memory
Western Union: Small Boats provokes our dread and desire.
Art
The Enigmatic Beauty of Leidy Churchman's Paintings
Churchman raises pointed philosophical and sociopolitical inquiries by coaxing viewers toward a position of otherness.
Film
A Poignant Ode to Public Housing
Screening as part of Images Festival, Ayo Akingbade’s trilogy No News Today offers an incisive glimpse at the British Nigerian filmmaker’s hometown.
Film
Explaining Your Favorite Gifs and Translating Video Games: Web Docs to Watch
Check out video essays and shorts about making terrariums, the history of the Seattle Mariners, and more.
Books
An Architect’s Tribute to the Power of Design and Memory
At a time when many of us are more housebound than usual, Robert Hutchison’s Memory Houses offers tools for the conceptual construction of spaces to hold grief or build new mental architecture.