Film
The Ghosts and Zombies of Haiti's Colonial Past
Zombi Child and Ouvertures delve into France's lingering influences on Haiti.
Review
Music
An Explosion of Alternative Noise
Tired of contemporary pop’s mild spareness, craving music packed tight with crunch? These are four the noisiest albums rock albums around.
Art
Gauguin’s Predatory Colonial Gaze
Is it fair to use contemporary standards to judge a man who died 116 years ago?
Art
Painting Outside the Safe Zone
It is not so much what message is narrated or illustrated, but how the form of the painting is questioned in its realization.
Art
A Two-Person Show Spans the Poles of Imagination
Tammy Nguyen’s inspired reinvention of the myth of Narcissus occupies a world apart from Ha Ninh Pham’s slightly demented vision of a parallel universe.
Art
Painting Disaster From a Distance
Motohide Takami's images locate the exact distance at which you can contemplate tragedy yet remain untouched by its damage.
Art
A Richard Serra Thought Experiment
Serra’s new works are the ultimate billionaire’s art.
Art
Using Animals to Talk About Historical Trauma
By drawing on Japanese folk stories and myths about animals, Gaku Tsutaja is able to construct imaginative, open-ended narratives about historical traumas.
Books
Visceral Drawings From Antonin Artaud’s Final Years
Spanning a period of more than 20 years, the works in Antonin Artaud: Drawings and Portraits are a devastating record of a soul lashing out and grasping at the page.
Art
Dissident Visions With a Dose of Play
Minerva Cuevas exposes the contradictions of the socioeconomic systems that rule our daily life in her first solo show in New York.
Art
Visions of California That Don't Begin or End at the Border Wall
The MexiCali Biennial highlights the legacies of colonization along the US and Mexico border.
Art
Romare Bearden's Collages of Life in the Rural South and Industrial North
For the first time in decades, more than 30 collages from Bearden's Profile series is being shown together.