Art
A New Swiss Museum Shows Women’s Art Through a Multivalent Lens
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women at the Museum Susch suggests that letting women be multivalent is a critical piece of letting women be seen.
Review
Music
James Blake Grows Up
Assume Form is Blake’s first album to acknowledge his status as a pop presence, but it also feels like an attempt to broaden his range, to correct the way he became associated with generic melancholy.
Art
Color Is the Carrier of Emotion
Although it is very early in Jule Korneffel’s career, she has moved into a territory where color and materiality outweigh discursive content.
Art
Reconsidering Saul Steinberg
In an art world that celebrates the work of Raymond Pettibon, it seems to me that Steinberg deserves another look.
Art
Reviving a Forgotten Artist of the Occult
Today, more than 100 million copies of Pamela Colman Smith’s Tarot card designs, the Rider-Waite-Smith Deck, are in circulation in over 20 countries, making it the most popular set ever made.
Art
A Painter With a Purpose
In Evan Fugazzi's paintings we are given the pleasure of experiencing how each color helps to define the others.
Art
An Artist's Commentary on the Damages of Men
The most shocking thing about Sarah McCoubrey's paintings is their startling and deeply unfashionable, unapologetic beauty.
Film
A Frankenstein for the Forever Wars
Depraved, a soulful indie take on Frankenstein, proves the perennial relevance of Mary Shelley’s monstrous creation.
Art
Seeing What the Fish Might See
The work of cut paper by Georgia Russell might be a vision of what I fish would see as it lies gasping for breath in the bottom of a net.
Art
Zilia Sánchez's Deeply Personal, Erotic Art
Sánchez's first museum retrospective marks an important step in acknowledging her legacy: not only as an isolated island but as a noteworthy member of a burgeoning canon of Latin American women artists.
Art
The Need for More Complex Exhibitions on Lesbian Visual Culture
I was excited to see Lesbian Matters — as we truly are in desperate need of exhibitions dealing with lesbian visual culture — but I was saddened by its lack of complexity.
Art
Enter Thierry Mugler's Seductive World of Counter-Culture Fashions
What does the French designers back catalogue say about his tendency to clothe celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Cardi B?