Review

Performance

A Performance Investigates Domesticity and Power via Simone de Beauvoir

Carrie Ahern's Sex Status 2.0 is a performance of desire in all of its expressions — anguished, flirty, direct, sorrowful, desperate, awkward, joyous — and, as such, essential viewing.

Film

The Hidden Sides of New York's Well-Known Landmarks

Three new HBO documentaries probe the stories of the Statue of Liberty, the Bronx, and the Apollo Theater.

Art

Seeing Consent Through the Lens of Body Language

Photographer Tommy Kha's Return to Sender exhibition at LMAK Gallery frames him as his own subject — a listless participant in a series of intimate encounters.

Art

The Haunting Image of Home Amid Climate Change

In the face of natural disaster, artists question how the overwhelming anxiety of environmental degradation can be harnessed into creative action.

Film

The First Black Woman to Direct a Major Hollywood Film Is Finally Getting Her Due

Thirty years after the release of A Dry White Season, Euzhan Palcy is on a roll with a Barbican retrospective and a slew of recent screenings. Here's a look back at some of her major works.

Art

Looking Back on the Art and Media of 1919, the Year World War I Ended

The Huntington Library is exhibiting 250 of its objects that were made, edited, or acquired in 1919.

Art

The Defiant Spirit of Wangechi Mutu’s Caryatids at the Metropolitan Museum

In reflecting on Mutu’s recent commission for the Met’s façade one morning, I realized that her sculptures make space for excellences and joys that dominant Eurocentric histories have ignored and excluded.

Art

The Idiosyncratic Paintings of Maud Lewis, a Beloved Canadian Folk Artist

Lewis may have operated on, or even outside of, the fringes of the art world, but the McMichael Canadian Art Collection believes she deserves a place within its halls.

Film

Reimagining Cinema from Nature's Perspective

The "Animistic Apparatus" program at this year's Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival explored the natural world as a potential audience.

Art

In Shanghai, Carving Out a Space for Critiques of Consumerism

At the TANK Art Festival, the line between art and product became ambiguous, though it was probably artificial to begin with.

Art

Peruvian Artists of Chinese Descent Shed Light on a Long History of Migration

“Chinese migrants arriving in the 19th century didn’t speak Spanish — had no knowledge of the language — and found themselves in an adverse environment,” curator Marco Loo tells Hyperallergic.

Art

Yoko Ono, More Urgent Than Ever

At the Everson Museum in upstate New York, a mini-retrospective highlights the timeliness of the artist’s enduring humanistic and nature-focused themes.