Art
Taking a Walk on the Lower East Side
Anton van Dalen represents a lesser acknowledged artist archetype: the non-heroic, civic-minded observer and chronicler.
Review
Books
A Graphic Novel Adapts Octavia Butler’s Science Fiction Classic
The award-winning author-illustrator duo Damian Duffy and John Jennings have teamed up again, but at times, Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation feels unoriginal, even for an adaptation.
Film
Over Skype, Filmmakers Ponder Whether Cinema Is Dying
The latest iteration of the documentary series Room H.264, presented by the Museum of the Moving Image, considers the future of film and was made entirely in quarantine.
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.
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.