Art
Reinhard Mucha's Unsettling Precision
Mucha's reflective sculptures ensure that while looking at one work, viewers are aware of others and our presence among them.
Review
Books
Is It Beautiful, or Is It Art?
We philosophers love to argue, and so when I say that Thierry de Duve offers a lot to argue with, I mean that as sincere high praise.
Art
Reflections on Aging, Identity, and Social Justice in Potent Prints
The dynamic curator Judith K. Brodsky makes a compelling case for the historical importance and profound expressions of printmaking.
Art
Capturing the Unfathomable Cosmos on the Met Museum's Rooftop
Alicja Kwade's rooftop commission at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shrinks the firmament to human scale, questioning the limits of perception in the process.
Art
Two Queer Artists Recreate San Francisco’s Shuttered Dyke Bars
To Know Herself at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts honors these bars as spaces in which community connections start, and where love grows.
Art
How Artists of the French Revolution Embraced Neoclassical Revivalism
Revolutionary Generation: French Drawings (1770-1815) from the Fabre Museum illustrates how, as the Rococo movement went out of fashion, France’s insurrectionist artists drew on ancient Greek and Roman art for inspiration.
Art
Painting 250 Years of Racial Violence in the Americas
In his brightly-colored acrylic works, Haitian-born, Philadelphia-based artist Claes Gabriel addresses the Haitian Revolution, global migration, and police brutality in the US.
Art
A Photographer Retraces the Underground Railroad's Secret Routes
Midwestern artist Jeanine Michna-Bales’ latest photo series, Through Darkness to Light, is the result of 14 years of research and 1,400 miles of travel along former routes of the Underground Railroad.
Art
Paul Mpagi Sepuya Breathes New Life Into the Genre of Studio Portraiture
Sepuya’s portraits unmask the artifice of studio portrait photography.
Performance
A Healing Performance in the Face of Danger and Trauma
You Are Next to Me is a dense and complicated ongoing work that manages to be funny, human, and spontaneous, about interaction and healing in the face of very present danger and trauma.
Film
Donald Glover's Guava Island Is a Visual Delight, and That's the Point
Guava Island is a fun, colorful, anti-capitalist romp that leaves viewers smiling.
Film
Ash Is Purest White Is a Gangland China Love Story
The writer-director's latest feature film chronicles China's socioeconomic transformation through the eyes of a couple caught up in the criminal underworld.