Film
The Twists and Turns of the New Twilight Zone
While the series often falters, season two feels less self-conscious about its status in this iconic franchise, and more willing to simply be itself.
Review
Music
The Limits of a Rapper's Comedy
Lunging for the most obvious jokes on Find the Beat, Blueface is desperate to be heard and understood.
Art
Lorna Simpson's Cut-Up Portraits Evoke the Complexity of Identity
Composed of photographs culled from vintage Ebony magazines, the faces in these collages are reconstructed into new selves.
Art
The Moral Complexity of War Games
An-My Lê is a Vietnamese-born photographer who has portrayed — and participated in — re-enactments of the Vietnam War.
Art
Nature as Filtered Through a Screen
How do we experience eco-art online and what might it suggest about the nature of the digital gallery experience?
Art
The White Melting Pot
The work of Jiha Moon and Stephanie H. Shih is both aesthetic and political, a commentary on assimilation as a process in which one’s national origin is not forgotten or erased.
Art
Ying Li’s Ecstatic Landscapes
Li had to reinvent herself as a gestural painter in her 30s, after years of painting traditional ink-wash landscapes and Soviet-style propaganda.
Film
Spike Lee’s Latest Is a Thorny Portrait of Black Masculinity and Generational Trauma
While Da 5 Bloods has its weaknesses, it hits the nail on the head with its portrayal of the complicated nature of Blackness and brotherhood.
Film
An Essential Watchlist of Groundbreaking Black Documentaries
These films illustrate both the undeniable threat of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy and the incomparable strength of Blackness.
Books
John Cage, Forager of Music and Mushrooms
No matter how much one knows about the artist or mycology, John Cage: A Mycological Foray surprises with its ode to continuous wonder.
Music
Reflections of America in Rap
Four new rap releases reflect the divided state of the nation.
Books
Memoir as the Fragments of Memory
When Michel Leiris died in 1990 at age 89 he was a canonical figure in France, mainly for having remade the genre of memoir in his own image.