Art
Sondra Perry Offers Viewers a Drone Perspective
Surveilling the landscape of Cleveland, Sondra Perry’s latest exhibition A Terrible Thing fashions an institutional critique of MoCA Cleveland.
Review
Art
The Long and Nomadic Life of a Mythmaking Artist
Joseph Elmer Yoakum recollects his adventurous life in signature curvilinear language.
Film
Queer Camp, Religious Kitsch, and Music in the American South
Two new documentaries, The Gospel of Eureka and Gay Chorus Deep South, explore Southern queerness and faith in drastically different ways.
Film
A Stylish Crime Drama's Moral Ambivalence
Neither a political thriller nor entirely a noir, Benjamin Naishtat's Rojo is an eerie film in which the stakes feel painfully high.
Art
Eating Flowers in Search of Mysticism and Meaning
In Karen Azoulay's mesmerizing video art, the artist and her collaborators don gem-encrusted masks and sample bits of nature.
Art
A Library of Photo Books Reveals the Texture of Location
Thinking of a Place fosters a feeling that we are seeing just a slice of what’s out there, potentially leaving us with a desire to experience the full picture of place.
Art
The Aspirations of a Generation of Black Artists Visualized in Soul of a Nation
At the Broad's iteration of Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, there is scarcely a work that does not demonstrate how deeply we are struggling with the same issues that concerned Black artists a half-century ago.
Art
The Limits of Edvard Munch's Radicalism
What remains unspoken in the British Museum's Love and Angst is the ways Munch's dark emotions frequently came to target the women in his life.
Music
Surface Buzz with Lizzo, Ariana Grande, Twice, and GFriend
The new albums by these artists all adapt R&B tropes to their own uses.
Art
An Indian Master of Fiber, Clay, and Bronze
In her fiber sculptures, Mrinalini Mukherjee achieved an alchemic relationship between materials and process, fusing abstraction and figuration to indelible effect.
Art
Reconciling Secular Art in Sacred Spaces
Surprises and puzzles in Venice and Vienna, from Sean Scully to Tintoretto.
Art
Piero Manzoni and the Reinvention of Art
Manzoni’s work can be viewed as slight and Herculean, tragic and buoyant, mystical and materialist, minimal and baroque.