Art
Bill Viola's Videos Elevate the Commonplace
Viola's art takes us to the core of humanity through technology, exploring birth, death, and transcendence, examining the soul through the human body.
Review
Art
In the Hands of Meme-Makers, One Image Has Many Lives
Currently, a broad part of online communication consists of people reinterpreting a shared pool of references. There's no better showcase for this than various subcultures putting their own spins on popular memes.
Books
A Black-and-White World Beneath the Ocean
"The images in this book are a reflection of what I hear beneath the waves," photographer Christian Vizl writes in Silent Kingdom: A World Beneath the Waves, his stunning book of undersea photography.
Film
Documentaries That Make New Connections Between the Personal and Political
At BlackStar Film Festival, filmmakers of color address topics ranging from immigration, to hip hop, to Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals.
Film
A Joan of Arc Film Brings the Saint Down to Earth
An expansive biopic, Jacques Rivette's newly restored 1994 film Joan the Maid focuses on Joan of Arc the human first — and Joan the myth, saint, and warrior second.
Art
The LA Artists Who Advanced Black Stories Through Art-Making
The network of artists and collectors who were pulled into John T. Riddle’s orbit is the focus of an exhibition at the Craft Contemporary.
Art
The Sprawling Ecologies of Olafur Eliasson
The curators of Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life have highlighted the the open-endedness of his practice by allowing the exhibition to spill out over the boundaries of the ticketed space into corridors, the terrace outside, and other places.
Art
How Printmaking Became Popular After the Great Depression
The Associated American Artists wanted to bring art to every home.
Art
A Prophet of the Coming Electronic and Mechanical Realities
The Centre Pompidou-Metz and Museum Tinguely have joined together to present a remarkably diverse and prolific two-part exhibition devoted to the German artist Rebecca Horn.
Art
Faith Ringgold's Painted and Sewn Survey of United States History
At London’s Serpentine Gallery, Faith Ringgold tells stories of race and self-discovery which have too often gone untold.
Books
David Bezmozgis's Strangers in a Strange Land
Nostalgia and despair form the emotional undercurrent of these stories about the afterlife of an immigrant childhood.
Books
Lyn Hejinian Imagines Life on Mars
The poet challenges assumptions about how thinking is a form of language.