Art
Cecilia Vicuña’s Poetry in Space
The artist suggests that like her fragile assemblages, peace demands care, balance, and the resolve to hold together what might otherwise fall apart.
Review
Art
Alternate Landscapes of Diasporic Homelands
Samantha Box constructs altars to the interconnection between plant and human life while Sheida Soleimani creates collages imbued with familial memory.
Art
Samia Halaby’s Abstractions Map Displacement and Home
The trailblazing artist’s abstract paintings, on view in her first US museum retrospective, are luxurious fields of color and form, each one pulsating with its own energy.
Book Review
How Did the Korean Feminist Movement Influence Art?
A new book spans artists from the 1970s through today around 15 themes, including body art, queer politics, ecofeminism, and the North American diaspora.
Art
A Luminous Chapel to the Late Richard Mayhew
The artist personally picked out each piece and painted new works expressly for this exhibition during what turned out to be the final months of his life.
Art
A Show on Orphism Can’t Seem to Figure Out What That Is
The problem with Harmony and Dissonance is that its narrative is neither harmonious nor dissonant, but rather fragmented and vague.
Film
60 Years Before Wicked, a Movie Musical That Made Your Eyes Sing
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is one of the most brain-quiveringly beautiful films ever to flood a screen.
Film
The Beautiful Infinity of Tetris
A new documentary-game includes an interactive timeline, interviews, and of course, playable versions of the game.
Book Review
A Comic Artist’s Antidote to the How-To Guide
Adrian Tomine’s new book answers questions from his readers, a gesture of acknowledgment and even gratitude delivered from a safe distance.
Art
Troy Lamarr Chew II Depicts Social Invisibility
The artist’s transparent portraits reveal the larger forces of culture and society that define and marginalize his Brown and Black subjects.
Art
Sophie Calle Is Both Exhibitionist and Voyeur
For a half-century, Sophie Calle has been probing human connection, emotional impulses, and vulnerability via fictional devices, dry humor, and unapologetic impropriety.
Art
Kelli Connell’s Queer Americana
She does not refuse the romanticized American landscape that Edward Weston and Charis Wilson helped visualize, but her photographs filter it through a lens of lesbian desire.