Film
The Bittersweet Nostalgia of Watching Basquiat in Downtown 81
A time capsule that holds the legendary artist in immortal youth, the cult classic also preserves a certain New York, which has now changed beyond recognition.
Review
Art
Transforming the Cinema Into a Wholly Sustainable Space
The exhibition Ecocinema explores the relationship between humans and nature, and goes a step further: transforming the Kunsthalle into four movie theaters, using sustainable, natural materials.
Art
Two Artists Invite You to Bask in Their Garden
Garden is a sustained mind-meld between two artists’ aesthetic sensibilities, one clearly born from a long friendship grounded in loving, making, and sharing art over the course of 15 years.
Art
Two Artists Merge Their Divergent Worlds Into a Veritable Wonderland
If Hirosuke Yabe’s sculptural compositions are like a Miyazaki-esque stage play, then Summer Wheat’s large-scale paintings form a colorful and dynamic backdrop.
Film
"It's All Downhill from Here": Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story
With his latest film, the director pays tribute to Ingmar Bergman's epic Scenes from a Marriage, revealing the disconnect between the public face of marriage and the reality of joined private lives.
Film
North Korea as a Multifaceted State Instead of a Boogeyman
Filmmaker Soon-mi Yoo is getting her own focus at the London Korean Film Festival. Her 2014 documentary Songs from the North takes a neutral approach toward a nation that is usually reviled or laughed at.
Art
Incarcerated Artists, Seen Through the Lens of Their Creativity
While The Pencil Is a Key spans continents, training levels, and types of imprisonment, today’s constant headlines about mass incarceration and border detentions lend it a special timeliness.
Art
A Deliciously Transgressive and Strikingly Vulnerable Ode to Queer Sex Work
Declaring a pro-sex, pro-porn stance off the bat, On Our Backs presents diverse notions of intimacy, in sex work and the communal art and advocacy that spring from it.
Performance
A Celebration of Opera Affirms Its Relevance
From a monologue on death to a story about a police shootout, Opera Philadelphia’s productions showed us the many things opera can be.
Art
Leonardo da Vinci, Lost at the Louvre
What exactly is the matter with this exhibition? We had expected to be excited from the start, but we are not.
Art
The Fearless Faces of a Feminist Firebrand
With her series of plastic surgeries, ORLAN wasn’t using her face simply in a performance, but as an art material.
Art
The “Small-Time Crook” Whose Visions Defied Apartheid
An amateur photographer’s images of louche Cape Town nightlife in the 1960s capture a daring, booze-fueled, melting-pot spirit in the face of apartheid.