Film
This is a film that wants to contend with Black grit and intellectualism, to walk the street and sit in the ivory tower. But in failing to acknowledge the nuances of each, it flattens and compounds these different facets of Blackness into nameless characters.
Art
At Southern Exposure in San Francisco, South Asian, Southwest Asian, and North African artists evoke the challenges they face in celebrating their cultural origins.
Art
As tyranny surges in 2020, imagery of these holy ladies — on view in Gothic Spirit: Medieval Art — might offer more than first expected.
Books
While in Siena, memoir author Hisham Matar turns to his own love of paintings by the Sienese School,and spends hours, days even, in front of a single work.
Art
While the ecological aspect of Suter’s work is particularly timely, her obvious enjoyment of pure color and form makes her artworks all the more enduring.
Performance
A performance series that asks, “What is sacredness?”
Art
Wiley shows us that a Black man can indeed take the place of Napoleon.
Art
At the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, artworks confront their own untimeliness through appeals to a deeper, more cosmic, sense of space and time.
Art
Both are prone to the response, “I don’t get it.”
Art
Throwing together a sculptor and photographer and hoping for a spark.
Art
One of many captivating and delicious things about Harry Roseman's drawings is that he has dissolved the boundary between madness and rationality.
Art
Nilsson's paintings come across as youthful and wise, a rare combination in any art.