Art
Building New Worlds Out of Grids
The work of Emma Soucek and the late Maddy Parrasch at Safe Gallery not only braves the space of the grid, but also revels in its inconsistencies and hiccups.
Review
Film
An Innovative YouTube Series Visualizes Sports Data in a Mesmerizing Manner
SB Nation's Jon Bois brings a singular style to his video storytelling.
Art
Disinformation and the Death Star: The Legacy of Gretchen Bender
Gretchen Bender’s work faded into obscurity following her meteoric 1980’s career. A posthumous retrospective in New York demonstrates why she deserves to be more than “a footnote to the Pictures Generation.”
Books
A Modernist Sculptor Finds a Language in the Canadian Landscape
Murray’s sculpture develops a unique perspective, despite synthesizing many aspects and themes of contemporary sculpture emerging from New York in the 1960s and 1970s.
Performance
A Strange Loop Stages the Double Consciousness of Being Black and Queer
Michael R. Jackson’s subversive sermon on the conflicted heart of a Black, queer man writing a musical about a Black, queer man details an artist's fight against society's expectations of what he should be.
Film
Lis Rhodes's Films Are an Active Outcry Against Exploitation
Rhodes’s diverse collection of feminist films show an obsessive concentration on language as a system of signs that reveals but also reinforces the oppressive structures faced by the world’s most vulnerable populations.
Art
How Psychiatry and Hallucinogenic Drugs Meet in Painting
The Bethlem Museum of the Mind's latest exhibition Brilliant Visions: Mescaline, Art and Psychiatry plunges into the murky world of psychosis and psychedelics.
Books
Chantal Akerman's Painful Final Memoir
Almost four years after her death, My Mother Laughs, the last book by the pioneering director, has been translated into English.
Books
The Layered Nature of Artifice in a Book About a 16th-Century Naturalist
Insect Artifice is divided into two parts: one consisting of an intellectual biography of Joris Hoefnagel, and another, which analyzes Hoefnagel’s seminal work Four Elements, a compendium of the known animal world.
Art
Cut Canvases Give Voice to Women's Bodies
The phonetic title of Cristina Camacho's /ˈvʌlvə/ seems to capture the vulva just before it solidifies into a signifier, renewing its possibilities of meaning production.
Film
An Overlooked Gem from the New Queer Cinema Wave Imagines John Lennon on Holiday
1991's The Hours and Times, recently restored and now available to stream, is part of a tradition of queer films recontextualizing what we think we know about history.
Books
A Chronicle of 100 Contemporary Artists Who Use Textiles
With artists spanning all corners of the globe, Vitamin T is a timely contribution to dismantling the division between art and craft.