Art
This Year, the Spring/Break Art Show Is Less Fanciful but Still Worth It
Spring/Break feels a bit different this year, which might have something to do with its location in the United Nations complex in midtown.
Review
Art
Charles White’s Intimate and Dignified Portraits of Labor and Black Oppression
Charles White: A Retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art surveys an illustrious career that spans from the Great Depression to the age of Black Power.
Art
Refugees Tell Their Stories Through Mementos
Jim Lommasson shows the human side of impersonal statistics with photographs of the personal belongings that immigrants brought with them.
Art
The Horrors and Delights of the Surrealist Subconscious
Two exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art revel in the unique strangeness of one’s mind.
Art
Women and Minority Artists Flourish Amid Elite Indulgence at the 2019 Armory Show
Progress is incremental, and art fairs are still hellacious places to appreciate art.
Film
The New Robert Mapplethorpe Biopic Is Ironically Timid
The movie barely feels invested in Mapplethorpe's art, much less in trying to replicate its sensibility.
Art
Between Body and Machine, a New Humanism Is Imagined
In this exhibition regarding the intersection of art and technology, instead of work that feels automated or detached, viewers are confronted with works that directly reference the body.
Art
The Studio Museum Conceives Its Future in a Traveling Exhibition
Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem first brings highlights from the iconic New York institution's collection to the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco.
Film
Mockumentary Series Documentary Now! Makes a Brilliant Parody of Marina Abramović
Tonight's episode, "Waiting for the Artist," is the perfect introduction to this odd and wonderful show.
Film
A Filmmaker's Journey Through His Mother's Jamaica
Khalik Allah’s Black Mother looks at maternity as a symbol, using it to understand various subjects in Jamaica.
Books
Etel Adnan, the Eternal Voyager, Captured in a New Biography
Author Kaelen Wilson-Goldie reveals the radical power of abstract painter Etel Adnan’s life and work in a new book.
Film
The Origins of the Colombian Drug Trade Told Through an Indigenous Family's Eyes
The female-forward characters and the matrilineal Wayúu tribe the movie orbits have gone surprisingly under-explored by film critics.