Music
The Disquieting Tranquility of Alternative Rock
New releases from Clairo, Oso Oso, Lindsey Stirling, and Tyler, the Creator.
Review
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.
Film
When Stranger Fictions Reveal More Prescient Truths
In eschewing claims to an unmediated reality, Synonyms reveals truths about French society often masked by reality itself, while Young Ahmed obscures crucial systemic injustices in Belgium under the guise of realism.
Art
The Quiet Introspection of Amy Sherald’s New Portraits
For her Hauser & Wirth debut, Sherald restructures historical notions of blackness through the use of grisaille.
Film
An Unearthed Cinematic Time Capsule of New York Hustle and Bustle
Film poet Manfred Kirchheimer shows off beautiful restored footage he shot in NYC from 1958 to 1960 in Free Time.
Art
The World of Glass Proves Less Fragile Than Ever
A showcase of contemporary art and craft made of glass demonstrates how this millennia-old material continues to adapt effortlessly to our own era.
Film
The Horrors of Coming of Age
In his latest film, Zombi Child, Bertrand Bonello complements his usual emphasis on aesthetics with an insightful critique of colonialism and the contradictions of liberalism.