Art
Simone Leigh's Debris of Silence
Simone Leigh's work, on view at the Guggenheim Museum, is inhibiting in a particularly difficult way: it doesn’t seduce; it doesn’t explain, it doesn’t rely on interpretation; it doesn’t care what I think.
Review
Film
Women Directors Take Risks in New Genre Shorts
The latest edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival continued its trend of elevating female filmmakers.
Film
Turning the Andes Into a Metaphor for Chile's History of Political Oppression
With The Cordillera of Dreams, director Patricio Guzmán closes out a trilogy of documentaries in which he's used Chile's landmarks as points of inquiry into the nation's past.
Art
David Hammons Returns to LA With Wicked Tricks and Subtle Jabs
Imagining his first impression of the city he once called home, I suspect Hammons would have said: “You’ve let yourself go.” Conversely, he could have easily said, “I see you haven’t changed.”
Art
A Caribbean Present Steeped in a Colonial Past
In Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox, ten artists explore the implications of colonialism's violent legacy.
Music
Jamila Woods and Her Ancestral Spirits
Woods’s new album Legacy! Legacy! is framed by the presence of a larger community — the enacted community of choir singing and an imagined community of Black artists.
Art
An Unlikely Marriage of Science and Art
In the hate-convulsed worldscape of today, Heather Dewey-Hagborg proposes oxytocin as that long looked-for potion: The Love Drug.
Art
A Curator's Perspective on Davide Sorrenti's Fashion Photography
The photographer captured the currents of hip hop, skater, grunge, and rave culture that flourished in downtown Manhattan in the 1990s.
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.
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.