Art
An Artist's Ephemeral Monuments
At first glance, Sue Yon Hwang's paper statues look like misplaced monoliths: totemic, ritualistic, and ancient.
Review
Art
A Vision of Mass Media Compromised and Revised
A fan of chance and the lucky find, Robert Heinecken took every possible advantage of living in a media-saturated environment.
Art
Dan Devine’s Art of Destruction
The beautiful, surprising, and thought-provoking sculpture of Dan Devine is formed using a demolished car as a mold.
Art
Delving Into the Story of a Black Woman Waiting for a Bus in Postwar Los Angeles
Like the canvas itself, which has been hidden away for years in a private collection, the painted woman in Elsie Palmer Payne's "Bus Stop" is ready to be studied and re-evaluated.
Art
The Latin American History of Pop Art
Featuring works from artists in Latin America and its diasporas, Pop América intervenes in long-held conceptions of Pop Art’s geographic consolidations in the US and UK.
Books
A Book Assumes the Voice of Louise Bourgeois in Uncomfortable Ways
Jean Frémon began his book Now, Now, Louison while the artist, who was also a friend, was still alive.
Art
Spiritualist Drawings that Open Portals to Other Dimensions
Often compared to the work of Hilma af Klint, dozens of rarely-seen drawings by the late Swiss healer and Spiritualist Emma Kunz are on view at the Serpentine Gallery.
Film
When Classic Hollywood Attempted to Deal with Sexual Violence
In a Lonely Place isn’t so much a straightforward thriller as it is a poignant psychological study of a person and a milieu, veiled as an atmospheric noir.
Film
A B-Movie that Inspired Generations of Filmmakers, Including the French New Wave
A precursor and inspiration for filmmakers from the French New Wave to Arthur Penn, Gun Crazy plays in New York on April 14 and 19.
Art
The Lesser-Known History of Slavery in California
California Bound recounts a tumultuous history of mass migration, displacement, and litigation that led to the establishment of California’s earliest African American communities.
Film
The Afghan Films Left Unfinished Under Communist Rule
The reels for the aborted film projects had been kept in the archives of Afghan Film, which director Mariam Ghani mined for her new movie What We Left Unfinished.
Art
A Monumental Cloth That Tells a New Truth About the US Civil War
Contemporary artist Sonya Clark asks, “Who said monuments have to be steel?”