Art
Jim Osman’s Off-Kilter Arcadia
Osman's suite of new sculptures might look like buildings, or the things within buildings: furniture, toyish tools, and strange-ified objects of interior design.
Review
Film
A Few Gems Among This Year’s Bizarre Oscar-Nominated Shorts
The 15 films nominated for the Academy Awards tackle racism, aging, parenthood, and more.
Art
Humorous and Disturbing Self-Portraits Packaged for an Instagram Audience
Obscuring his identity with motorized toys and raw meat, David Henry Brown "Nobody" Jr. seeks to liberate himself from the ways capitalism tends to dehumanize us.
Art
A 19th-Century Guide to Euclid's Geometry Reborn as an Interactive Site
Designer Nicholas Rougeux created an interactive version of one of the first multicolor books, which turned Euclid’s pivotal geometric ideas into visual diagrams.
Art
How Women Have Been Constricted by Design
As Annica Cuppetelli's research has revealed, contemporary women are still routinely subjected to garment-based forms of discrimination.
Art
Descending into Lee Bontecou’s Apocalyptic Voids
Like her massive wall reliefs, Bontecou's works on paper evoke the world as fragile, teetering on the brink of total calamity.
Art
Women Artists Shatter the Stereotype of the “Valley Girl”
Valley Girl Redefined aims to challenge that very limited depiction of women from “the Valley.”
Books
Paul J. Sachs Trained a Generation of American Museum Leaders, Including Alfred Barr
Between 1921 and 1948, Sachs taught a year-long graduate class at the Fogg Art Museum “that decisively shaped the development, character, and ethos of the American art museum.”
Art
An Indigenous Artist Captures the Racial Violence at Standing Rock
Jim Denomie's paintings present an emotional response to the violence of white supremacy that emerged during the DAPL conflict.
Performance
Cauleen Smith Projects a Futuristic Black Utopia
Smith's Black Utopia LP forms an Afro-futurist collage of sound and language, rhapsodizing on the utopian possibilities of Black space travel and astrology.
Performance
A Close Reading of Slave Play Interrogates the Burden of Interracial Trauma
Why must we depict Black characters as eventually reconciling their contempt for whiteness with a prevailing, individual romance that conquers that disdain?
Art
How K-Pop Has Become a Battleground for Political Ideologies
Not unlike the art market, K-pop is governed by corporate interests and a hunger for global audiences.