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.
Review
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.
Art
The Politics Behind the Massacred Canvases of Lucio Fontana
Will audiences ignore the Argentine-Italian's fascist past to celebrate his first US museum survey in more than 40 years?
Art
A Promising Biennial in Kochi, India Is Marred by Sexual Misconduct Mishandling
The fourth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennial, which is the first instance of it being curated by a woman, is marked by lofty ideals, but also incidents of toxic masculinity.
Performance
A Play Casts Hercules as a Toxic Male (but Still a Hero)
A reinterpretation of a Euripides play tells a seldom staged and lesser-known side of the famous hero.
Books
How W.E.B. Du Bois Meticulously Visualized 20th-Century Black America
The Pan-African scholar's data visualizations about Black American progress after Emancipation have been compiled, for the first time, as a book.
Books
Miyó Vestrini, a Fierce Venezuelan Poet Who Wrote About Death
Grenade in Mouth is the first full-length collection of Vestrini’s texts available in English.
Art
An AI Artist's Twitter Feed Is an Art Gallery
The images and videos Mario Klingemann posted under the hashtag #BigGAN can only be appreciated by treating his Twitter feed as a digital exhibition.
Art
Women’s Tense Relationship with Fabric Artfully Unfolds
Poorly Watched Girls is Suzanne Bocanegra's largest exhibition to date and the culmination of her collaboration with the Fabric Workshop and Museum.
Books
Vasily Kandinsky's Poems
Evocations of color dominate these ruminative prose poems.