Art
Imagining the Last Moments of Murdered Journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Abdulnasser Gharem's "The Safe" (2019) is an installation that puts its visitors inside a padded room that recalls the slain journalist's torture chamber.
Review
Art
Inspired by Photos Taken by His Murdered Father, an Artist Offers an Eloquent View of Memory and Trauma
Ellis's manipulated drawings, watercolors, and photographs — based on shots taken by his father — are a window into the life of someone who experienced extreme deprivation and loss.
Art
An Artist Reconciles With Her Eye Condition Through Her Exacting Draftsmanship
Eye jailed eye is born out of Joeun Kim Aatchim’s struggle with strabismus, but is by no means defined by it.
Art
The Beauty and Spirit of Mexican Religious Icons
Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States graces us with images of heavenly Mexican figures and tells stories of people crossing the border.
Art
Tilda Swinton Curates Photography Inspired by Virginia Woolf's Orlando
Swinton’s photography exhibition at Aperture, based on Woolf’s iconic novel, Orlando, does not challenge our imperious need to classify bodies, but is definitely one worth seeing.
Books
A Graphic Novel Gruesomely Satirizes Gentrification in Chicago
Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore's graphic novel BTTM FDRS blends discussions around race relations, cultural appropriation, and urban injustice with body horror and an eerie plot.
Books
The Many Stories of Stonewall
Attempting to complicate dominant narratives, "The Stonewall Reader" offers a broader, but not always balanced, range of accounts.
Film
The Delicious and Campy Queer Cinema of 1970s and ’80s Germany
The Quad Cinema in New York City is showing Queer Kino, a selection of queer cinema from East and West Germany in the 1970s and ’80s
Art
A Sexual Fantasy Concocted Around an Ancient Perfume Bottle
For Sunday Fantasy Zoe Williams collaborated on a film with three co-authors and friends to create a fictionalized story enacted by different actresses united in playing distinct interpretations of a singular character: Veronica Malaise.
Music
The Maximalist Dance Music of Valgur, Ibibio Sound Machine, Hama, and Steve Lacy
These new releases burn with creepy surprises, rubbery jitters, musical knots, and basslines that run into your arms.
Art
Mark Greenwold Looks in the Mirror and Does Not Flinch
Greenwold takes us down the rabbit hole into that place where fear and trembling preside.
Art
The Joan Mitchell You’ve Never Seen
Highly analytical, Mitchell was a master of setting off one form or color against another, advancing the idea that a painting can be made of separate but layered and entangled parts.