Art
Expressions of the Fullness of Being
In Natvar Bhavsar's art, all is in flux; everything is both what it is and all that it might become.
Review
Art
The Colors of the Sixties
Spilling Over: Painting in the 1960s at the Whitney Museum expands the common understanding of a pivot point in American art, while basking unapologetically in the pure pleasure of looking.
Art
Harry Dodge Presents Love as a Tool for Discovery
Dodge’s work implies that you’ll eventually have to rethink love formally in order to reconcile technology and humanity.
Film
Films on the Fringes of the Japanese New Wave
A series at the Japan Society opening on April 5 further complicates the definition of the Japanese New Wave cinema, whose parameters are typically difficult to define.
Art
Can the Shed Save the Soul of Hudson Yards?
The stakes could not be higher for the critically panned, $20 billion development. Will culture sanctify this one percenter's playground?
Art
Occupy White Walls Game Lets You Simulate Developing Your Own Blue-Chip Gallery
A van Gogh might be impossible for most of us to own in real life, but this computer game makes it a simple transaction
Art
Bodies Lose Themselves Within Other Bodies in Erotic Watercolors
Nadine Faraj's technique, which is to work wet-in-wet with watercolors on paper, evokes the misty arcs of pleasure and the deep, deep depths of hunger that the sexual act taps.
Art
Daguerreotypes by a French Traveler Who Was Among the First to Photograph the Eastern Mediterranean
Monumental Journey displays Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey's daguerreotypes which include the earliest surviving photographs of many notable cities and monuments in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Art
Simone Fattal Sculpts Poetry from Chaos
The Lebanese artist’s first US retrospective reveals a haunting mythology of lands in ruins and new beginnings.
Art
The Colors of the Ancient Mediterranean in Vivid Dimensions
A new exhibition at University of Michigan’s Kelsey Museum of Archaeology dives deep into the material and application of pigment and in doing so highlights a colorful, international history.
Film
Gaspar Noé’s Latest Film Is a Drug-Fueled DJ Mix from Hell
Climax is something of a feature-length DJ mix, with Noé behind the decks.
Film
The Irresponsible Failure of a Netflix Series on the 2012 Delhi Gang Rape Investigation
Richie Mehta’s Delhi Crime uses taut cinematography to distract from its propagandistic storyline.