Books
The Many Stories of Stonewall
Attempting to complicate dominant narratives, "The Stonewall Reader" offers a broader, but not always balanced, range of accounts.
Review
Film
The Delicious and Campy Queer Cinema of 1970s and ’80s Germany
The Quad Cinema in New York City is showing Queer Kino, a selection of queer cinema from East and West Germany in the 1970s and ’80s
Art
A Sexual Fantasy Concocted Around an Ancient Perfume Bottle
For Sunday Fantasy Zoe Williams collaborated on a film with three co-authors and friends to create a fictionalized story enacted by different actresses united in playing distinct interpretations of a singular character: Veronica Malaise.
Music
The Maximalist Dance Music of Valgur, Ibibio Sound Machine, Hama, and Steve Lacy
These new releases burn with creepy surprises, rubbery jitters, musical knots, and basslines that run into your arms.
Art
Mark Greenwold Looks in the Mirror and Does Not Flinch
Greenwold takes us down the rabbit hole into that place where fear and trembling preside.
Art
The Joan Mitchell You’ve Never Seen
Highly analytical, Mitchell was a master of setting off one form or color against another, advancing the idea that a painting can be made of separate but layered and entangled parts.
Art
Alain Kirili's Embodied Abstract Art
Throughout his career Kirili has evoked the body in his abstract sculptures, in an era when sculpture has often sidestepped the human form.
Art
The Legacy and Life of a Political Art Collective
Bold and vigorous in their expression, the collective Taring Padi has bitterly denounced the corruption of the Indonesian government.
Art
Excavating Mark Rothko’s Theatrical Foundations
The paintings Rothko made before 1948 are considered minor, but an exhibition in Vienna claims that they are essential to understanding the artist’s mature works.
Art
The Searing Beauty of Nancy Spero
With their free interplay of image and text, Spero’s Codex Artaud and the even more ambitious Notes in Time are nothing less than a personal redefinition of the nature and meaning of visual art.
Film
One of the Most Controversial Anime Ever Comes to Streaming for the First Time
Neon Genesis Evangelion, a massively successful Japanese television series with a wide influence and divisive plot, is now on Netflix.
Art
The Arcs, Lines, and Body of Sheree Hovsepian's Studio Photography
In the artist's work, flagrant playfulness reigns supreme, and the human body points at an unresolved sense of geometry.