Art
Candida Höfer Takes Her Expansive Lens to Mexico
In Mexico foregrounds Höfer's images as records of a site’s architectural and sociopolitical history.
Review
Art
NADA's Solution to the Growing Cost of the Art Fair
NADA's programming this year focuses on the local, emphasizing the ongoing programming of brick and mortar galleries over the quick fix of an art fair.
Art
An Exhibition About a Book That Rejuvenated an Indigenous Culture
The show tells a success story not often heard in the world of Indigenous art and culture, chronicling how the Boas/Hunt book has acted as a guide for contemporary Kwakiutl peoples.
Art
Bridging the Diverse Foundations of 20th-Century Asian Art
This landmark exhibition at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary finds unexpected resonances among disparate Asian countries.
Books
A Palestinian Poet’s Elegiac Musings on Exile and Neurosis
Hala Alyan’s new book of poetry, The Twenty-Ninth Year, explores a shattered woman’s psyche.
Art
A Photography Exhibition Corrects a Mainstream Museum's Failure
Our Land, mounted as a reply to a controversial show at the Brooklyn Museum, features contributing artists from North Africa and West Asia and their diasporic communities.
Art
Art on Paper Fair Celebrates the Tactile While Resisting Nostalgia
Featuring 3D collages made from Batman comics, sculptures carved from archaeology books, and massive archways built from recycled paperbacks, Art on Paper 2019 celebrates the fine art potential of an undervalued material.
Film
In 3 Faces, Three Generations of Iranian Actresses Grapple with Oppression
Iranian director Jafar Panahi has violated his 20-year government-imposed filmmaking ban to make a powerful feature about Iranian women’s relationships to art and labor.
Art
Contemporary Artists Contextualize the Work of Black Panther Photographers
Vanguard Revisited: Poetic Politics & Black Futures highlights Bay Area artists and artist collectives whose work contextualizes the lasting impact of BPP ideology and activism, and the photographs of Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones.
Books
The Radical Activist Ambitions of New Left Cinema
A new book chronicles how leftist directors of the 1960s and '70s used the essay film as an activist tool.
Art
The Undiscussed Sexual Exploitation Buried in Matisse’s Odalisque Paintings
So ingrained is exploitation in our understanding of female sexuality within (and outside of) art history that incredibly basic readings recede into the background and are deemed somehow radical.
Art
Formerly Incarcerated Artists Visualize Healing
The OG Experience amplified the voices most directly affected by mass incarceration, putting the spotlight on artists thoughtfully grappling with the prison industrial complex.