Art
Tate Britain Hangs a Diverse Display of Women Artists Out of Its Permanent Collection
The collection of 60 women artists from Tate's permanent collection, on view through April 2020, tackles the tricky terrain of museum representation.
Review
Books
A Poet Yearning for Knowledge
Ron Padgett’s poems make me gnash my teeth.
Art
Mosaics of Motherboards, Keyboards, and Wire
Ethiopian artist Elias Sime makes wall sculptures from castoff computer parts that evoke the toxic dumping of these materials around the world.
Art
The Southern Gothic Moods of Allison Janae Hamilton
Hamilton’s immersive installation allows visitors to wrestle with a mysterious land, its racial realities, and its mythic past.
Music
Ragnar Kjartansson’s Panorama of Love and Death
The artist’s Death Is Elsewhere conveys an understanding that humans — relatively recent additions to a 4.5-billion-year-old planet — will come and go. The planet will remain.
Art
Marley Freeman Charts the Abstract Space of Memory
Freeman transmutes a recollection into a color-based relationship between abstract forms.
Art
The Divine Light of Josef Strau
Strau's collage-paintings merge the word and the light, while positing the shared slipperiness of language and faith.
Film
The Mutations We May Endure When Our Global Environment Becomes Uninhabitable
Joel Potrykus's new film Relaxer is at once his smallest — following a single protagonist isolated in his apartment for the entire runtime — and his most visionary.
Books
The Knotty Legacy of Weirdo, R. Crumb's Underground Comix Magazine
A new book chronicles the decade-long run of Weirdo, an oddball magazine founded by the comix world's enfant terrible.
Film
Werner Herzog Adds to Mikhail Gorbachev's Endlessly Strange Pop Culture Legacy
In the documentary Meeting Gorbachev, Herzog finds nostalgia for a lost past.
Art
Choosing One's Own Adventure at the Greenpoint Open Studios
The event was rife with artists treading the line between childlike, creepy, abstract, and surrealist art, which catered to my undying penchant for nostalgia.
Film
Exploring a Film Critic's Tastes Through the Movies She Loved — and Hated
On the centennial of Pauline Kael's birth, the Quad Cinema is presenting Losing It at the Movies, a retrospective including both films that received her highest praise and those she viciously tore apart.