Art
The Wild World of Trenton Doyle Hancock
Hancock's is a world with its own creation myths and conflicts — colorful and fun, but with serious undertones.
Review
Film
A Filmmaker Captures the Seduction of Prosperity and Its False Promises
Mambéty made films that are political only on a broad, symbolic level, and their subject is the soul of a people who have been tricked into a troubling fate.
Film
A Filmmaker Explores His Mother's Youth and Parses Her Disturbing Dreams
Breathless Animals, premiering in the US as part of the Art of the Real festival, captures the cadence of nonlinear memory.
Film
Kronos Quartet Tells Its Story in a Live Documentary
The venerable string quartet is touring A Thousand Thoughts, playing live accompaniment for a documentary about its history and music.
Art
Yemeni Artists Reflect on Their War-Torn Homeland
In a Beirut exhibition, artists displaced by the civil war in Yemen broaden our collective understanding of one of the 21st century's most dire humanitarian crises.
Art
A Hand-Painted Animation Tells a Moving Story About Depression
Suzan Pitt’s Joy Street is strikingly unpretentious and emotionally frank — refreshing in an art world that is often emotionally detached and intellectually cool.
Art
Fragmented Sculptures Evoke the Gaps of Memory
Looking at each of Cayetano Ferrer’s works is like waiting for a photograph to come into focus, or retelling an old story and making up bits for the parts you’ve forgotten.
Art
The Politics and Limits of Transportation Systems Around the World
An exhibition presents a decade’s worth of research on how people get around with transportation systems that can both lead to and help resolve social inequalities.
Art
How Photography and Jazz Merged to Forge the "Black Is Beautiful" Movement
Kwame Brathwaite's photographs fused the two mediums to push the boundaries of beauty, transforming how we define Blackness.
Art
The Power of Deception to Subvert Heteronormativity
Artist Pixy Liao subverts gender norms with a playful yet threatening humor.
Art
A Photographer's Intimate Infinitude
David Lebe has often relied on alternative photographic processes to create powerful depictions of queer bodies.
Art
Visions of Urgent Abstraction
DC-area artist Rushern Baker IV’s abstractions attempt to find meaning in the chaotic world outside the canvas.