Film
How One Family's Story Shapes Our Understanding of 20th-Century Germany
With Heimat Is a Space in Time, Thomas Heise explores how personal experience shapes the "objective" past.
Review
Art
A Moscow Museum's Ecological Rallying Cry
The Coming World is an ambitious portrait of a dark future in which the world has run out of its resources, but still hasn’t found a way to “Planet B.”
Film
A Film's Experimental Portrait of an Art Center's Struggles
A Bread Factory focuses on a town’s struggle to keep its sense of identity, and the importance of capital as much as art.
Art
The Beautiful Peculiarity of Leidy Churchman's Paintings
Churchman seems to be painting as a way to better comprehend his subjects; the canvases feel like dedications, striving to embody someone or something’s true nature.
Film
Two (or Three or Four) Sides of the Same Story: The Films of Pedro Costa
Costa's seventh feature, Vitalina Varela, is the latest in a filmography that consistently builds on its predecessors both thematically and stylistically, telling and retelling connected stories through different points of view.
Art
Remembering an Artist Who Fought to Have It All
An artist, mother, and source of inspiration for Detroit artists, the legacy Rose Brown Dalessandro leaves behind is not simply one of form, but one of the struggles attendant to its creation.
Art
Photography From Africa that Refuses Easy Narratives
Africa State of Mind does not pander to expectations audiences might have or desire of African artists, instead allowing for these artists from 11 different countries to devise their own frameworks for understanding the places they are from.
Art
How Socialism Shaped Africa Between Independence and the End of the Cold War
After the End offers a selection of works from artists with personal relationships to, and experiences of, socialism in countries such as Angola, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique.
Film
Amidst a Global Crisis, Stories of Refugees Striving for Normalcy
Abbas Fahdel's documentary Bitter Bread turns a compassionate eye on the hardscrabble lives of migrants in Lebanon.
Film
Unpacking Mentorship and Masculinity in Two Portraits of Fatherhood
Screening as part of BAM's annual "Contemporary Arab Cinema" showcase, Of Fathers and Sons and Fatwa offer starkly different meditations on the radicalization of young men.
Art
Science-Fiction Dreams Rendered in Three Dimensions
Room for Living, Jacolby Satterwhite's first museum exhibition, draws together a decade of mind-melting speed while also marking a change: he’s learning to use sculpture to stand still.
Books
The Little Magazines Behind Avant-Garde Art and Literature
These magazines often served as laboratories for thought experiments, and were crucial to the creative and political development of many artists.