Art
Abstraction’s Exhaustion and Renewal
Bernard Piffaretti is an artist who recognizes painting as an act of inquiry and skepticism.
Review
Art
Looking at the Roots of the Bauhaus
Bauhaus Beginnings succeeds in reanimating the dialogue that began in the school’s classrooms and hallways, and in following it, as it spilled out into the streets of a country.
Art
Sarah Sze’s Gleaming, Ephemeral Universe
Sze’s dynamic sculptures aim to capture relationships and their gaps, the solidity of objects and their discarding.
Art
Paintings Where Women Punch Back
Rebecca Morgan has absorbed the basic tenets of Neoclassical drawing and applied them to raunchy, sexually explicit subject matter, something you cannot imagine Nicholas Poussin or Jacques-Louis David ever doing.
Film
Familiar Yet Strange: Shorts From This Year’s Projections Showcase at the NY Film Fest
Devoted to experimental film and video work, the annual sidebar presents a range of shorts that explore the negotiation of identity in manners both playful and stark.
Film
Healing a Father-Daughter Bond Against the Backdrop of the Troubles
In Trouble, after learning that parts of a BBC documentary about her father were faked, Mariah Garnett sets out not to correct the record, but to play with it.
Art
Painting the Extreme Intimacy Between a Mother and Her Infant Child
In Madeline Donahue's first solo exhibition, Attachments, the relationship between a mother and child threatens to subsume each individual into one being.
Art
Inmates Annotate an Archive of Prison Photos With Their Own Stories
The results are arresting, as the writers, who are also men in prison, make anonymous images their own, speaking out of their own experiences, bringing insights and empathy that no outside critic or art historian could.
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.
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.