Art
The Rarities and Oddities of a Vanished World
It’s fair to say that images of sporting have a relatively marginal place in our art world.
Review
Art
Berenice Abbott's Optimistic Modernity
Abbott aimed her lens at so many 20th-century subjects that her photographs challenge us to rethink modernity itself.
Art
Jess, a West Coast Visionary
It is clear to me now that seeing Jess's art was the beginning of my awareness that there was a multitude of what John Ashbery called “other traditions.”
Art
Seeing American History Through the Art of a Black WWI Soldier
Horace Pippin was a self-taught artist out of necessity, as the society in which he lived had shut most of its doors on him.
Art
The Young Lords' Fire Will Not Go Out
Mapping Resistance: The Young Lords in El Barrio, a public art exhibition on the civil rights organization, displays the group's spirit of refusal to accept our skewed legal, political, economic, and social organization system.
Film
Stream New Documentaries on Ants, Snails, Hacker Graffiti, The Simpsons, and More
Some exciting things to stream right now include a half-hour monologue on masculinity and abuse, a look at the difficulties of building public housing, and a survey of all the weird and wonderful Simpsons fan creations.
Film
Pose Is a Much-Needed Ode to Legacy in the Black and Latinx LGBTQ Community
The groundbreaking television show's second season speaks to the immense power of chosen family.
Film
An Overlooked Filmmaker’s Monumental Contributions to Diasporic Cinema
Gariné Torossian has much to teach viewers about the experience of dwelling in displacement.
Books
A Korean “Comfort Woman” Tells Her Story in a Harrowing Comic
Cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim relays the story in a documentarian manner that isn’t for the faint of heart.
Art
An Artist Designs a Handbook to Help Migrants Survive
If art and culture can go beyond symbolic power and occupy both poetic and utilitarian registers, Mladen Miljanović succeeds with his Didactic Wall exhibition.
Film
On Instagram, a Nice Smile Only Takes You So Far
The documentary Jawline looks at the strange modern landscape of social media celebrity through the story of one aspiring influencer.
Books
Celebrating the Male Physique in Gay-Adjacent Magazines
Buying Gay is a thorough, and extremely entertaining read that delights in several ways, and especially in terms of David K. Johnson's analysis of the tropes of physique magazines.