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.
Review
Film
Remembering Toni Morrison Through Film
To help me parse this year's film Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, I had a conversation with Steven G. Fullwood, an archivist, editor, publisher, and scholar, to discuss the documentary's approach in telling the phenomenal author's story.
Film
Harsh Lessons From Brazil's So-Called “Helpless”
Bacurau, a ferociously angry film, straddles the thriller and the social drama, invoking the history of resistance to state violence in the Brazilian sertão.
Film
How the Decade’s Best Documentaries Chart Radical Changes in Filmmaking
The 2010s were a seismic time for nonfiction filmmaking. Director Robert Greene considers how the craft has evolved, and continues to evolve.
Art
The Astonishing Discovery of an Artist’s 9,200 Portraits of an Alternate Queer Self
The previously unknown Polaroids of April Dawn Alison were not just snatched from the jaws of oblivion, but are now in an esteemed museum collection.
Music
The Disquieting Tranquility of Alternative Rock
New releases from Clairo, Oso Oso, Lindsey Stirling, and Tyler, the Creator.
Art
The Hollow Heart of Antony Gormley’s Spectacle
Is there something self-aggrandizing about Gormley’s career-long obsession with making casts of his own body?
Art
Zoë Buckman's Embroidered Texts Have the First-Person Immediacy of Internet Speech
There is both vulnerability and strength in Buckman's texts and bodily forms.
Art
Are Joe Massey’s Prison Drawings the Next Big Thing?
A remarkable cache of drawings by a now-deceased, African-American prisoner in Ohio might be just what the art market has been waiting for.
Art
The Unseen Labor of Women in Art
Sara VanDerBeek’s new print series, Women & Museums, interrogates how women occupy institutional spaces, particularly through the prominence of traditionally craft media like ceramics and textiles.
Art
Capital and Complicity in the Art World
William Powhida reorients our perspective away from the individuals who lead and fundraise for cultural institutions and redirects it toward international flows of capital.
Art
Traveling to China, Finding the Core of Art
If there is a folly to what Zhang Wei has done, there is also a defiance of the commercial aspect of the art world.