Art
Painting Home, When It Won't Let You Stay
In her first major solo show in London, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami’s paintings recall the all too familiar diasporic experience of being foreign in both places you call home.
Review
Film
The Documentary Project That's Followed the Same Subjects for Over 50 Years
63 Up is the latest installment in the Up series, which has revisited a set of British people every seven years since they were children, tracking their lives and development.
Art
Consciousness, Conflict, and Contradiction in the Art of Robert Colescott
After viewing Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott — the artist’s most comprehensive retrospective to date — it feels fair to assume that factions of society still aren’t ready for Colescott.
Performance
Mourning through Performance, or Performative Mourning?
At Performa, Huang Po-Chih and Su Hui-Yu each staged theatrical productions concerning collective mourning and memorialization. Yet while Su built upon his own relationship to a story of loss, Huang seemed to impose himself upon someone else’s.
Art
LaToya Ruby Frazier Looks Beyond Blue-Collar Stereotypes
In The Last Cruze, the artist hones in on the vast inequities that persist in US society, as well as the tender relationships that enable survival and persistence in spite of them.
Art
Hank Willis Thomas Opens Up Space for Interpretation, Which Is Sometimes Risky
When we have more opportunity to interact with art on our own terms, there are more places to hide from its difficult truths, particularly viewers who have the privilege to do so.
Art
An Artist's Radiographic Photos Cast New Light on Chernobyl
Anyone willing to view Alice Miceli's Projeto Chernobyl on its own terms, to see radiography as both a practical tool and a potential art form, will be richly rewarded.
Art
What Vincent van Gogh Meant to the German Avant Garde
Making Van Gogh: A German Love Story is an heroic effort to salvage Vincent van Gogh’s great artistic intensity from the much hyped, romantic image of the artist as a doomed interloper.
Performance
Staging a History of Violence
Schaubühne Berlin vividly adapts the author Édouard Louis’s first-person account of the experience of rape and attempted murder.
Music
Four Approaches to Sonic Immersion
When the world encroaches, aural blankets are comforting, but they can also function as weapons.
Books
Giorgio de Chirico's Dream-like Verse
These poems channel the artist's restlessness and longings into uncanny, animated visions.
Art
Are We Prepared to Look Seriously at de Chirico?
I want to resist any temptation to interpret these pictures, to reveal ‘meanings,’ instead of acknowledging the ways they underscore the strangeness of the workaday world.