Music
Rock Without the Posturing
New albums from Mdou Moctar, Control Top, L7, and Gary Clark Jr., guitar heroes all.
Review
Art
Josh Kline's Water World
The artist imagines a future in which an Antarctic ice sheet has broken, resulting in a catastrophic sea-level rise.
Art
George Miyasaki's Non-Western American Painting
In writing about artists of Asian descent I have repeatedly bumped up against codified prejudices in both the art and literary world.
Art
Four Spots in the Venice Biennale to Stop You in Your Tracks
The Biennale’s system of national pavilions may be an outdated relic, but it does succeed in putting a spotlight on countries that typically receive scant art world attention.
Art
The Contrarian Modernism of Fairfield Porter
In these paintings, as in so much of Porter’s work, American loneliness coincides with American leisureliness, often uneasily.
Art
A Japanese Classic, Dimly Illuminated
The visual images interpreting The Tale of Genji, the world’s first novel, which was written by a woman, are presented as beautiful objects devoid of context.
Film
Juliette Binoche Offers a Tantalizing Performance in Her Two Latest Films
In both High Life and Non-Fiction, Binoche is a temptress equally tender and intimidating.
Film
How a Great American Fashion Designer Rose and Fell Along with Disco
A documentary tracks the life and work of superstar designer Halston.
Art
An Artist Uses Buddhist Iconography to Engage in a Political Debate Around Tibet
Tenzing Rigdol enters a political debate that is disruptive, slippery, and without comparison in Tibetan contemporary art.
Art
An Artist Provides a Stage for Us to Make Political Decisions
Björn Meyer-Ebrecht’s objects provide a stage, and the viewer is the actor who must perform the uprising.
Film
How a Jeopardy! Champ's Play to Become a Feminist Public Intellectual Crashed
The new documentary Who is Arthur Chu? is a cautionary tale about the dangers of getting too online.
Film
The Fraudulent Health Startup that Got an Acclaimed Documentarian to Make Its Ads
How can we reconcile Errol Morris's stated mission of pursuing the truth with him helping to promote Theranos?