Art
A Modern Trompe L'Oeil Painter
Kim Tschang-Yeul transformed the formal vocabulary of American abstraction into a symbolic possibility in his paintings. He was not interested in making a pure painting.
Review
Art
A Monochrome Painter's Immanent Light
Painter Anne Appleby, who lives on a ranch in rural Montana, is highly attuned to the colors she sees in her landscape, as well as to the changing light and seasons.
Film
Pierre Huyghe's Filmic Fantasia About Preparing for Life
Huyghe's The Host and the Cloud, which ran at the Crossing the Line festival, creates a surprising sense of solemnity in making ready for events.
Books
A Novelist Mines the Profound Humor of Human Life
Etgar Keret's stories are absurd, tragic, surreal, and often dramatic, with surprising and shocking twists.
Film
The Artful Amateurism of Home Movies
In MoMA’s first exhibition composed entirely of home movies, visitors are placed into the perspective of these amateur filmmakers, ever so often stumbling upon a choice moment of intimacy.
Books
The Artists Who Wrote Poetry at Black Mountain, From Josef Albers to John Cage
Including poems from well known writers and less expected artists, Black Mountain Poems produces a keener vision of the interdisciplinary culture of the famed college.
Art
Janine Antoni Traces the Passage of Time in a Cemetery's Catacombs
The artist’s new commission leaves much to contemplate simultaneously — mortality, desire, and the ways in which absence and longing are such a fundamental part of life.
Performance
Engaging With the Lives of Teen Immigrants in an Interactive Play
The experimental play Manmade Earth, a co-presentation of FIAF’s Crossing the Line festival and The Invisible Dog Art Center, demanded that its audience listen to the experiences and anxieties of adolescents from around the world.
Art
Maren Hassinger Reminds Us That Equality Is For Everyone
The power of her work comes from its suggestion that specificity and universality, when it comes to identity and experience, are not mutually exclusive concepts, but often exist side by side.
Film
The Labor Rights Film That Got Both of Its Directors Murdered by the Yakuza
A special screening tour of Yama — Attack to Attack offers a chance to see this extremely rare Japanese film, which was intended to be used in perpetuity to agitate on behalf of the working class.
Film
Films That Transcend Southern Stereotypes and 'Florida Man' Headlines
The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival shows that while state lines may clearly delineate the South, they don’t neatly define the people living within them.
Performance
Bringing a John Cassavetes Classic to the Stage With a Volcanic Performance
In Opening Night director Cyril Teste and actor Isabelle Adjani went to lengths to present their protagonist with psychological depth and intimacy at FIAF's Crossing the Line festival.