Art
People Are Creating Some Unusual Video Games During Quarantine
Dreams, a new PlayStation 4 title, allows people to create their own games. The results have been fun, quirky, and surprisingly deep.
Review
Art
Mickalene Thomas Makes the White Cube a Domestic Oasis
Thomas's Femmes Noires reframes the gallery space, allowing viewers to alter their behavior from what’s expected in an art institution.
Art
What This Artist Needs to Make Work During a Pandemic
Tony Tasset’s use of inexpensive graph paper suggests that drawing is a way to remain open to ideas, whims, passing thoughts, even dreams.
Books
The Writer as Citizen of the World
Charles North is one of the rare citizens of the world in that he remains open to it.
Books
How Women Helped Revolutionize the Art of Printmaking
A new book examines the collective Atelier 17, whose members redefined beliefs about gender identity and artistic achievement in the 1940s and ’50s.
Art
Dorothea Lange's Humanist Vision
In Lange's photography, human ingenuity and grace triumph over the unspeakable blows of the Great Depression and other social oppression, even when hope is in short supply.
Art
Japanese Textiles Patched, Used, and Treasured for Generations
Boro textiles are early examples of sustainability in fashion because of their innovative approach to recycling, and they embody the fundamental principles of wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic that centers on the imperfection of objects.
Art
Channeling the Nuances of Motherhood Into Art
The debut exhibition at New Mexico State University explores the nuances of labor — in birth, in childrearing, and in intergenerational collaboration.
Art
Reveling in Female Interiority and Soft Power
Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s solo exhibition, soft powers, establishes a tension between opacity and transparency via her creation of an interactive bedroom space.
Film
YouTube Announces Its Own Digital Film Festival
Tribeca, Cannes, Sundance, and Toronto, are among the festivals collaborating on the upcoming We Are One: A Global Film Festival.
Art
The Expressive Potential of Clothes in an Era of Stay-at-Home Wardrobes
Individually and collectively, the artworks in Dress Up, Speak Up do exactly what the exhibition title promises: they dress up, and speak loudly, colorfully, and irresistibly.
Music
The Percussive Side of Electronica
The four electronic albums reviewed below speak to the importance of rhythm — or maybe just drums.