Art
Dora Maar, More than a Surrealist Muse
The Centre Pompidou's Dora Maar honors Picasso’s famous muse for the pivotal part she clearly, and often daringly, played in the establishment of the European avant-garde.
Review
Art
The Defiant Undercurrents of Feminine Art
While many of Julia Kuhl's paintings are funny and provocative others are more troubling, alluding to the ways women’s personal, professional, and sexual boundaries often go broadly unacknowledged.
Art
Our Love for Fetishes
Sculptor Margaret Wharton and painter Issy Wood are both open to the irrational currents flowing through our lives.
Film
Radical Migration Stories on the Road
NO EVIL EYE brings experimental film and politics to the forefront with a touring program currently screening in Brooklyn.
Art
Mapping Boundaries and Free Space in Brazil
A series of maps elucidates both literal and metaphorical walls that limit equality and freedom in Brazilian society and Latin America at large.
Art
Illustrating Spain in Transition Through Underground Comix
Ceesepe's retrospective at La Casa Encendida explores how the artist’s underground comics offer an alternative view of Spanish life under and after the dictatorship led by Francisco Franco.
Film
The Mountain Revisits the Dark History of Lobotomies in 1950s America
The movie superficially depicts the normal world of '50s America but from a subtly disjointed point of view.
Performance
When Artists Recreate Lost Children for Mourning Mothers
While entertaining at first, Reborning, which deals with the phenomenon of hyperrealistic "reborn dolls," progressively unveils what it means to be an artist in the 21st century.
Art
"Women's Work," Artfully Revisited and Redefined
The familiar expression "women's work" persists in our cultural lexicon, but five artists/activists present visions that reshape its definition in a massive and thoughtful exhibition.
Performance
Mining Robert Mapplethorpe’s Legacy, With Missteps
Though its music, and use of Mapplethorpe’s photographs and texts by Essex Hemphill and Patti Smith were impressive in their own rights, the performance Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) ultimately appeared cheap, forced, and self-congratulatory.
Film
The Crucial Role Music Once Played in Big Little Lies
In season two, the show all but abandoned one of its most effective cinematic tools: music.
Art
Suzanne Lacy's Powerful Legacy of Feminist Collaboration
What struck me most in moving through the arc of Lacy’s career is what varied and thoughtful work she’s produced decade after decade, no doubt the result of her preference for collaboration.