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.
Review
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.
Art
Sculptures on the Cusp of Language
Even as some of her works evoke functional objects, Christina Tenaglia is not interested in parody or citation. Their formal strength sets them in their own domain.
Art
Suburban Visions to Make Your Skin Crawl
Amy Bennett gives us just enough tantalizing visual details to enthrall and mystify, without becoming heavy-handed.
Art
Photographing the Personal Through the Murky Frame of the Political
The second annual Latin American Foto Festival, organized by the Bronx Documentary Center, gathers ten photographers eloquently using photography as journalistic evidence, personal catharsis, and cultural celebration.
Film
Fascist Leanings in the Desert
Rojo, the third feature by Argentina’s Benjamín Naishtat, summons and dissects a culture which masquerades psychological malaise as raw force.