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.
Review
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.
Film
In Maine, a Space to Spur Change in Documentary
The Camden International Film Festival chose "Power and Story" as the theme of its 15th edition.
Art
Embracing Mortality in the Face of Big Tech’s Domination
Ben Gocker isn’t yearning to be released from the impermanence of his body. His work shows his acceptance of nostalgia and melancholy.
Art
The Relationship of Decadence to Decay in Austria's "Pleasure Capital"
Within the theme of the “Grand Hotel Abyss,” the Steirischer Herbst 2019 art festival dropped visitors into a continuous past, present, and future of decadence, theatrics, and deviance.
Film
Agnès Varda Says Goodbye to Life and Art In Her Poignant Final Film
In Varda by Agnès, the revered director makes her own cinematic eulogy.