Art
Paintings with a Retinal Buzz
In Relative Brightness the canvas transforms into a rippling, luminous field of ever-shifting optical sensations.
Review
Books
Twenty Years of Peter Schjeldahl
Schjeldhal moves quickly to characterize an artist, like a cat pouncing on his prey.
Art
The Cosmic Vessels of an Adventurous Glass Artist
Josiah McElheny's glass vessels concentrate the ethereal and boundless into the finite and physical.
Art
A Painter's Dissonant Geometry
Gary Petersen is a highly intelligent painter, which is to say he has absorbed a lot of art history and, more importantly, is at ease with it.
Art
A Forgotten Painter and Her Visionary Abstraction
During her lifetime, Sonia Gechtoff was feted on the West Coast and for many years showed her work in New York, but the art world has yet to adequately address her achievement.
Art
Two Artists Use Weather as a Metaphor for Hong Kong's Protests
These solo shows from Luke Ching Chin Wai and South Ho Siu Nam draw parallels between the typhoons and showers of these regions and the unpredictability of authoritarian policies and resulting civilian uprisings.
Film
A Movie Envisions the Trial that Eric Garner Never Had
Roee Messinger’s American Trial: The Eric Garner Story envisages a future that was denied to Eric Garner and his family, thanks to the extremely racist and flawed legal system in the United States.
Art
When Students Went on Strike to Overturn a Eurocentric Curriculum
An exhibition remembers the students’ simple, yet radical, demand in 1968 San Francisco: the right to learn about themselves.
Books
A Novel Set in the Berlin of the Future Pokes Fun at the Creative Class
Elvia Wilk combines satire, dystopia, sci-fi, and millennial ennui all in one book.
Film
Inequality Is a Feature, Not a Bug
The smartest mainstream film about class made in many years, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite lays bare the lie that hard work can bring anyone closer to their dreams.
Art
Glimpses of Civil War Scars in Spanish Photography
Frente a Frente at Madrid’s Museo Nacional de Antropología reveals the fundamental ways in which, eight decades on, Spain still has yet to reckon with the conflict that once tore it apart.
Art
Airy and Affective Sculptures, Weighed Down by Contradictions
In his latest exhibition The Bather's Dilemma, Paul Chan's lofty claims act as dead weight in an otherwise elegant expression of human emotion.