Art
The Savage Beauty That Emerges From Loss
Malaysian artist Anne Samat’s grand installations resemble traditional woven, brightly colored altars but a closer look reveals toy soldiers, rake heads, and plastic keychains.
Review
Art
Rindon Johnson’s Odyssey Across the Pacific
At the Rockbund Museum, the artist explores the fluidity of Black identity, curious about what it might make of one of our planet's most varied geographies.
Film
A Dazzling Light in Dance History
When dancer Loïe Fuller’s spinning garment reflected the stage lights, it took on a life of its own, beguiling those in New York, Berlin, and Paris.
Art
Words That Leave a Ragged Edge
While Scrawlspace is a deeply inquisitive and well-researched exhibition, the premises are in some instances cliché and a bit contradictory.
Art
Kyle Larson’s Anxious Dreamscapes
His paintings invite us into a layered world we can move around and get lost in, without a destination.
Art
The Visceral Humanity of Ralph Lemon’s Art
Blending and blurring his roles as an artist, choreographer, and writer, a survey of Lemon’s art centers his luminous legacy of storytelling, memory, and transformation.
Art
Do Ho Suh Picks Up the Pieces
The artist’s imaginative, iterative artworks emphasize the loss that accompanies perpetual displacement — even the kind created by art world success.
Art
The Embodied Eroticism of Louis Fratino’s Art
In today’s algorithm-driven world what has become of embodied eroticism, of desire, of seeking and celebrating beauty, of intimate vulnerability, or vulnerable intimacy?
Art
Weaving Through the History of Diné Textiles
Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles brings together varied stylistic traditions and artists of different centuries to display the breadth of Diné weaving.
Book Review
Jonathan Lethem’s Alternative Life as an Artist
In a new book, the novelist and essayist writes in parallel to, rather than directly about, art.
Book Review
Serenading Entwined Lineages of Black Art and Music
Organized around the five components of a song, Nikki A. Greene dissects a lineage of sonic resonance and visual aesthetics in Grime, Glitter, and Glass.
Performance
An Artist Possessed by Her Alter-Ego
In Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! performance artist Alina Troyano asks: Where does one identity start and the other end? Can they even be separated?