Books
The Unique Legacy of an American Indian Modernist
Mary Sully's artwork reflects her cultural moment, but it is also as a blueprint for rewriting history to include marginalized perspectives.
Review
Art
A Tale of Two Pioneering Women Painters in Renaissance Italy
At a time when women were seen as incapable of serious creative or intellectual activity, Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana gained international renown for their exceptional bodies of work.
Film
"DIY or Die": Brooklynites Face the Apocalypse in Empty Metal
We might think of Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer's latest as a cyborg film — both its subject matter and formal approach depend on unifying across difference, a fuck-you to essentialized binaries.
Books
Changing the Tune of Globalization
In her new book on changing patterns of cultural production and consumption, Fatima Bhutto posits that it’s not American pop songs but K-Pop that has become the soundtrack of globalization.
Art
Imagining Utopia, Just Over the Horizon
The final exhibition of a trilogy at the Ford Foundation gallery imagines that our best selves have yet to be. They are on the horizon and the people who have been most oppressed, most ignored, and rejected will lead us all there.
Books
Merce Cunningham Takes the Book Out of the Box
More of an art- or archival collection than a typical book, Cunnigham's recently reissued Changes gathers sketches, notes, photographs, programs, and all other manner of ephemera in a creative package.
Art
Baseera Khan's Vivid, Anti-Imperialist Odes
snake skin is a corporeal study of the body politic, in which Khan wields the tools of cultural autopsy in her dissections of ancient ruins and traditions.
Art
Jeffrey Gibson's Artistic Remixes, From Song Lyrics to Indigenous Craft
Gibson’s ongoing explorations of identity and art history have produced a dizzying range of forms over the course of his career.
Art
The Cosmological Musings of Michael West, an American Abstract Expressionist
The artist, born Corinne Michelle West, is among the forgotten women of the postwar era, who rarely adhered to one style.
Art
Creating Soundscapes From the Whispering, Bubbling, and Roaring Earth
Now on view at Art Basel Miami Beach, sound artist Jana Winderen's The Art of Listening: Under Water draws listeners’ attention to the rich sonic landscapes of nature — and highlights how human activity might affect them.
Art
The Everyday Manifestations of Colonialism's Legacy
Banal Presents is the third and final chapter in Colored People Time, departing from the previous shows' speculative representations to examine the ways that colonialism and slavery have permeated the United States' past, present, and future.
Art
The Bizarre, Disjointed, Mixed-Media Paintings of David Lynch
Could a current exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and furniture by Lynch hint at secrets hidden in his other works, or even provide some spark of insight into the artist himself?