Film
The Shortcomings of Netflix's Documentary House Style
The streaming giant is increasingly relying on explainer-type series like Explained and History 101, but their supposed objectivity masks worrying biases.
Review
Art
Tender Pencil and Ink Drawings Pay Tribute to Nursing Home Residents
Michelangelo Lovelace made numerous drawings during his time as a nurse's aide, now on view in Fort Gansevoort's online show Nightshift.
Film
Reclaiming the Legend of Bruce Lee
The new ESPN documentary Be Water seeks to both reassert Lee's legacy and humanize him.
Film
The Delirium of Female Desire
Across Josephine Decker's work and in her new film about Shirley Jackson, Decker wants us to ask what right she, or anyone, has to make another’s story her own.
Art
Ann Greene Kelly Estranges the Familiar
In Kelly’s sculptures, manmade objects morph into new or composite forms that seem to verge on organic.
Books
A Writer’s Portrait of Louise Bourgeois
Now, Now Louison is a book that will trouble purists who believe in strict categories, such as biography, art criticism, and novel.
Art
Phillip Allen’s Astonishing Achievement
I have come to think of Phillip Allen as one of the most wonderfully challenging painters around.
Film
A Festival Brings Incisive, Experimental Documentaries Online
From the 2019 Chicago election to the everyday life of the mayor of Ramallah, Hot Docs offers a robust online program this year.
Art
An Invitation to Get Caught in the Spider's Web
Tomás Saraceno's retrospective exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi gives a closer look at the lives and creations of spiders to reveal how completely ecologies are entangled and spaces are shared with our nonhuman companions.
Art
A Workers’ Revolution Against a Sci-Fi Police State
The video game Tonight We Riot is the first from Means Media, a new Detroit-based, anti-capitalist media group.
Books
A Minimalism of Ideas, Rather Than Things
In The Longing for Less author Kyle Chayka searches for a minimalist mindset that isn’t “obsessing over possessions or the lack thereof but challenging our day-to-day experience of being in the world.”
Film
Minimalism Takes Flight
Within the many intersections between cinema and minimalism, there's a fascinating thread of nonfiction filmmakers depicting air travel.