Books
Friends and Critics Remember Manny Farber's Life as an Artist
Manny Farber: Paintings and Writings is the first comprehensive overview of the renowned film critic's work as a painter.
Review
Art
An Artist Presents Menopausal Women's Bodies as Powerfully Sexual
Inspired by Jean Genet’s 1950 homoerotic Un Chant D’Amour, Pauline Curnier Jardin's recent film Qu’un Sang Impur (2019) interrogates patriarchal credo through the lens of its unseen bodies.
Art
Images of Black Women as Avatars of Spiritual Agency
Delita Martin's latest exhibition, Calling Down the Spirits, seeks to visualize the incorporeal and genetic strands that tether generations of Black women to each other and to the spiritual world.
Film
Highlighting the Many Forms and Facets of Latin American Cinema
Now in its fifth edition, this year’s Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema is notable for its strong documentary selection, which encompasses topics such as war, capitalism, personal history, and folklore.
Art
The Body Is Both Vulnerable and Powerful for One of India's Most Prominent Printmakers
The Soul (Un)Gendered: Anupam Sud, A Retrospective at DAG gallery is the first retrospective of Sud’s work in the USA, and is good introduction to her intense and existentialist art.
Art
Fatigued by the Everyday? These Artists Are, Too
In the medical field, "empathy fatigue" is used to describe a state of exhaustion when compassion towards patients becomes tiring. Applying this term to its latest exhibition, Andrew Rafacz has brought together seven artists whose works investigate empathy on a global scale.
Film
The Infamous "Zola" Twitter Thread Is Now a Feature Film
In Sundance favorite Zola, Janicza Bravo and co-writer Jeremy O. Harris bring to life the true story of a wild trip to Tampa.
Music
Remembering Patrick Cowley, Pioneer of Dance Music and Occasional Composer of Porn Soundtracks
Melding psychedelia with disco at a fast tempo, Cowley helped refine a new music genre, "Hi-NRG,” which seemed ideal to enhance the hot and sweaty vibe of San Francisco’s gay clubs.
Film
Processing Mortality With Cinema
In Dick Johnson Is Dead, Kirsten Johnson pens a mischievous love letter to her father about the only universal guarantee in life — death.
Art
Seattle Museum Falls Short of “Reimagining” Asian Art as It Promised
Hopefully this renovation is not the endpoint of this institution’s reimagining of what an Asian art museum should be.
Performance
A Minimalist Take on Medea Delivers Maximal Drama
In Simon Stone's adaptation, the conflict is not cultural but psychological, and viewers can’t help but empathize with her.
Film
The Political Provocations of a Maverick Japanese Documentarian
Kazuo Hara's epic Reiwa Uprising, screening at Doc Fortnight, follows members of a new progressive political party trying to shake up the system.