Art
Finally, a Deeper Look at Luchita Hurtado’s Long Career
For years, Hurtado worked quietly, even if prolifically. At 98 years old, she's getting her due at the Serpentine Gallery.
Review
Art
The Ways She Looks and Looks Back at Us: Tracing the Gaze in Portraits of African Women
In a sprawling new photography exhibition at the Ryerson Image Center, the joy of self-definition offers its own form of resistance.
Performance
A Performance Investigates Domesticity and Power via Simone de Beauvoir
Carrie Ahern's Sex Status 2.0 is a performance of desire in all of its expressions — anguished, flirty, direct, sorrowful, desperate, awkward, joyous — and, as such, essential viewing.
Film
The Hidden Sides of New York's Well-Known Landmarks
Three new HBO documentaries probe the stories of the Statue of Liberty, the Bronx, and the Apollo Theater.
Art
Seeing Consent Through the Lens of Body Language
Photographer Tommy Kha's Return to Sender exhibition at LMAK Gallery frames him as his own subject — a listless participant in a series of intimate encounters.
Art
The Haunting Image of Home Amid Climate Change
In the face of natural disaster, artists question how the overwhelming anxiety of environmental degradation can be harnessed into creative action.
Film
The First Black Woman to Direct a Major Hollywood Film Is Finally Getting Her Due
Thirty years after the release of A Dry White Season, Euzhan Palcy is on a roll with a Barbican retrospective and a slew of recent screenings. Here's a look back at some of her major works.
Art
Looking Back on the Art and Media of 1919, the Year World War I Ended
The Huntington Library is exhibiting 250 of its objects that were made, edited, or acquired in 1919.
Art
The Defiant Spirit of Wangechi Mutu’s Caryatids at the Metropolitan Museum
In reflecting on Mutu’s recent commission for the Met’s façade one morning, I realized that her sculptures make space for excellences and joys that dominant Eurocentric histories have ignored and excluded.
Art
The Idiosyncratic Paintings of Maud Lewis, a Beloved Canadian Folk Artist
Lewis may have operated on, or even outside of, the fringes of the art world, but the McMichael Canadian Art Collection believes she deserves a place within its halls.
Film
Reimagining Cinema from Nature's Perspective
The "Animistic Apparatus" program at this year's Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival explored the natural world as a potential audience.
Art
In Shanghai, Carving Out a Space for Critiques of Consumerism
At the TANK Art Festival, the line between art and product became ambiguous, though it was probably artificial to begin with.