Art
A Painter's Playful and Profound Deconstructions
Engels the Artist doesn’t seek out these other vocabularies — he is firmly a painter, but one who employs a number of deconstructive tools in his work.
Review
Books
A Poet Takes Up Biography
Baron Wormser offers empathetic but unflinching portraits of a diverse group of historical figures.
Art
El Greco, Modernist Hero
Set the works of El Greco alongside those of Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, or Pablo Picasso, and you can see why they admired and copied him.
Art
Seeking the Soul of Iceland
It is not surprising that a music star would have an exhibition at an art gallery. What is surprising is how compelling and meaningful this show, by Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi, really is.
Art
Paintings by the Famous, the Forgotten, and the Emerging
Two exhibitions explore the work of three painters in a chain of influence: Alan Davie, David Hockney, and Christina Quarles.
Art
Drawing as Refuge
Pete Schulte's drawings at first seem to be easily apprehended and quickly digested, but they demand a deeper reflection on choices and motives.
Art
A Truly Rebellious Artist
Is Joanne Greenbaum making fun of collectors’ tastes, or is she enlarging the definition of art? The fact that you cannot tell is what is so great about her work.
Art
Matthew Wong: Kind of Blue
It seems that Wong was in touch with his deepest feelings and they came through in all of his art; this is what makes him special.
Art
Gauging the Potential of Abstraction at Art Basel Miami Beach
Questions of privilege aside, the range of abstract works reminded me how artists are providing nuanced ways of thinking about identity that move beyond exclusion/inclusion binaries.
Film
Rethinking Villains in Documentary Film
At the 2019 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the programming strand "The Villain" looked for new ways to depict unsavory subjects.
Film
How Martin Scorsese Seeks Revelation in Documentary
Film Forum's new series Scorsese Nonfiction brings an under-discussed facet of the director's career into focus.
Film
A Showcase of Boundary-Crossing Brazilian Cinema
Kicking off today at Film at Lincoln Center, the series presents a body of work that’s particularly heartening when one considers the encroachments on freedom that Brazilian cinema must now confront.