Art
A Young Master of Painted Flesh
As invested as Louis Fratino is in his gay subject matter, what heightens the work is his formal mastery of the figure in space.
Review
Art
A Shape-Shifting Artist, 87 Years Young
Over the course of a 70-year-career, David Driskell has been making art about memory, jazz, cities, spirituality, and nature.
Art
An Exhibition Brings Tolkien's Vision Down to Earth
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth tries to wrest Middle-earth back to its source: J. R. R. Tolkien’s writing-desk.
Art
Confronting Loss Through Abstraction
Throughout her career, Andrea Belag has pushed her style of the moment to its limits and then modified it again.
Art
A Painter’s Path from Bosnia to Florida’s Backwaters
Amer Kobaslija captures Florida’s lush, strange atmosphere while examining the expressive potential of oil paint’s luminous, elastic, viscous goo.
Film
What to Watch Right Now on the Criterion Channel and OVID
The two streaming sites kicked off this past month with a robust, diverse selection of movies.
Art
Yinka Shonibare Restages the Trauma of the Gilded Age
In some respects, it makes sense that Shonibare has installed his work in the Driehaus Museum, a monument and tomb consecrated to the gilded age.
Art
The Wild World of Trenton Doyle Hancock
Hancock's is a world with its own creation myths and conflicts — colorful and fun, but with serious undertones.
Film
A Filmmaker Captures the Seduction of Prosperity and Its False Promises
Mambéty made films that are political only on a broad, symbolic level, and their subject is the soul of a people who have been tricked into a troubling fate.
Film
A Filmmaker Explores His Mother's Youth and Parses Her Disturbing Dreams
Breathless Animals, premiering in the US as part of the Art of the Real festival, captures the cadence of nonlinear memory.
Film
Kronos Quartet Tells Its Story in a Live Documentary
The venerable string quartet is touring A Thousand Thoughts, playing live accompaniment for a documentary about its history and music.
Art
Yemeni Artists Reflect on Their War-Torn Homeland
In a Beirut exhibition, artists displaced by the civil war in Yemen broaden our collective understanding of one of the 21st century's most dire humanitarian crises.