Art
Gertrude Abercrombie’s American Surrealism
Feted as the “Queen of the Bohemians,” Abercrombie saw herself as a kind of jazz witch forging dream visions into a strange, eerie, and occult body of work.
Review
Art
Benny Andrews Painted the Textures of Life
Collaged scraps of cloth or crumpled paper in Andrews’s portraits were a subversive and insistent means of encompassing his own non-White, non-urban roots.
Art
Men Undressing for Women and Other Contemporary Takes on the Old Masters
Sylvia Sleigh challenged the traditions of portraiture by letting those she adored be their glorious selves.
Art
Artists Find Power, Care, and Resistance in the Garden
A group exhibition at the Aldrich Museum frames gardens as a sites of nurture and control, tradition and innovation.
Film
Universal Language Brings Tim Hortons to Tehran
Centered on an Iranian community in a fictional Winnipeg-Tehran hybrid, the absurdist comedy is a joyous depiction of emphatically unalienated people.
Art
Kenneth Tam’s Requiem for the Shattered American Dream
The artist takes up the devastation of those whose lives have been shattered by the plummeting value of the taxicab medallion.
Art
Christine Sun Kim’s Multidimensional Music
The artist makes the air hum with the previously unperceived dimensions of ordinary things, from the linework of movement to the music in everyday situations.
Art
A Haitian-American Artist’s Many Lenses on Life
Through his mixed media artworks, Paul Gardère invites his audience into a meaningful and personable dialogue and offers a glimpse into his life.
Art
Setsuko Channels the Magic of Cats
The artist’s felines, sculpted in ghostly white enamel-glazed clay, infuse the space with a quiet vitality, bridging the mystical and the everyday.
Art
Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s Labyrinths of Desire
Working with, alongside, and against conventions of portraiture photography, the artist manipulates the gaps between image and object.
Art
The Reluctant Genius of Rudy Burckhardt
The complexity of Burckhardt's work is easy to overlook, because he calls attention to neither his mastery nor his labor.
Book Review
Dona Ann McAdams’s Repository of Memory
The American photographer offers a singular fusion of literary and photographic art in her autobiography Black Box.