Film
Youssef Chahine, the “Last Arab Optimist”
Hailed for his exuberance and fluid style, the Egyptian filmmaker graces big screens again at Il Cinema Ritrovato.
Review
Film
How New York Let the Bronx Burn, and How the Borough Survived
The documentary Decade of Fire delves into the wave of arsons that wracked the Bronx in the 1970s.
Art
The Sensory Tethers You'll Find in Textiles
Woven Walls, a tightly curated summer show at Morgan Lehman Gallery, explores a language between the threads of different textiles.
Art
peter campus Sees the Self in Video
In video ergo sum, the Bronx Museum of the Arts presents decades of work from the renowned Video artist
Film
A Small Town Reenacts the 1917 Deportation of a Thousand Striking Miners
The documentary Bisbee '17 deconstructs how we perform our idea of the past as it resurrects an unsavory episode in labor history.
Books
The Curiosity Corporation that Defined Colonialism
Rich with meticulous archival detail and more than 200 years of the East India Company's history, Company Curiosities provides little in the way of argument or critical intervention, leaving the reader to interpret its vast expanse of material.
Art
The Influence of Painting on Balenciaga's Visual Universe
An exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum demonstrates that though it would seem impossible to replicate El Greco’s gleaming fabrics in real life, Balenciaga manages to do just that.
Film
Reveling in the Languor of David Hockney’s World
A Bigger Splash, Jack Hazan's 1974 documentary on Hockney's circle, basks in the full-frontal, day-to-day details of their tightly interwoven emotional lives.
Art
Luc Tuymans’s Moral Distance
Tuymans is a figurative painter who doubts whether visual representations can ever be truthful.
Art
Stanley Whitney’s Machine for Painting
Whitney’s paintings at this point seem to embody the transitory.
Art
Rachelle Dang's Meditation on Past and Present
If white often symbolizes innocence and purity, Dang's pervasive use of the color gives her tropical tableau a ghostly, washed-out feel.
Art
Leonardo and His Double
Leonardo da Vinci would have found a deep connection to the ostracism of Saint Jerome at the hands of the envious and the hypocritical.